Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.

I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want my own space.

I'm nobody, who are you?

I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

I just knew I was different from everyone else. I still feel like that today, sitting in rooms with people.

When you've worked as hard as I have to form your identity, the last thing you want is to blur where you end and someone else begins.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.

Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.

I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

I don't feel bound by my face or my body. I don't feel like that's the biggest gift I have to offer the world. I feel like there are more parts of me to offer than that.

People are always separable.