Kirsten Dunst Quotes

I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while I write. I weep. I'll laugh, get excited, and get up and pace. I try to take the emotional journey with the characters.

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of every writer - it's probably true of every filmmaker, every songwriter - that, ultimately, every character you create is a facet of yourself.

With acting, it wouldn't be about money: it would be about taking my life experiences and using them to create art.

I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies.

The joy of doing the TV or something like 'Sacrifice' isn't really the process of doing it; the joy is going through this real-life experience.

As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.

I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

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