Zach Woods Quotes

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

I have recurring dreams about losing my temper, which become quite violent. I dread to think what that says about me.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.

When we speak, we want to say something sweet, but we don't say something sweet because something is ordering us from deep down to say something unkind. We want to open our hearts to people, but we can't do it, because we are being ordered around by the sufferings we have concealed deep in our consciousness.

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them.

I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.