Jonathan Galassi Quotes

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.

I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.

A writer needs a life of introspection.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

I write about what I'm going through.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Madame Bovary is myself.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.