Cory Barlog Quotes

I want to investigate what scares me and worries me.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

It's good to explore your darkness.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

I want people to find their inner depth.

Like most people, I find my own experiences - and my emotional responses to those experiences - fascinating and mysterious, even those that are a bit shaming and a little repellent.

The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.