Chris Buck Quotes

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.

Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Sometimes the future that you imagined to be the most dreadful, turns out to be the future that compels you to reach down very deeply into your being to uncover reservoirs of strength and perserverance that you had no idea were there.

In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.

Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.

The relationship that tests/frustrates/irritates you the most actually is one of your greatest blessings. Why? Because it reveals to you the very beliefs/fears and false assumptions that most limit you.

As I look back and connect the dots, all I want to do is go back and hug my scared young self, who took a lot of steps out of impulse not knowing what will happen. So many nights of disappointment, so many others of being disillusioned where I would have just gone ahead and quit it all - I still do not know what kept me hanging in there.