Andrew Dost Quotes

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Anyone who spends time on the road knows there's something special about being in the middle of Utah or Nebraska - you sit with it, and there's a peace about it. You can go left or right, and it opens up all kinds of doors. You take your own path.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

The journey is my home.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

I'd love to go to a remote part of the world or maroon myself on a tropical island, and shoot the whole thing myself. I've always adventured with other people and I'd like to spend some time completely on my own.

The open road still softly calls.

The great home of the soul is the open road.

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I'm happiest when I'm moving.

I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.