Scott Snyder Quotes

I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.

It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

I like playing characters with internal problems.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!