Jakob Dylan Quotes

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

I don't try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.