Jeff Nichols Quotes

All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and when I was in school, I loved to read old film criticism.

In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.

Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

I think it's always worth remembering that people sending off mean tweets are probably pretty lonely people.

I was alone more than most kids.

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.

Well, I thought the opening of 'Hatari!' was pretty good. And 'The Pink Panther' wasn't half bad either.

I think because of social media and YouTube things are changing. Today people have a judgement about films.

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

I think in some ways, I would go back home, and I didn't really quite fit in and couldn't - didn't have a person to bounce those experiences off of. So I felt a little bit trapped within me, and it made me feel lonely because I really couldn't - the things that were exciting to me, I couldn't really share those with another kid and that other kid understand that.

It's hard in L.A. not to go out, it gets lonely. Being an actress is lonely, and I never want to be alone. I hate sleeping alone.

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

There is no desert like being friendless.

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.