Catie Curtis Quotes

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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.

I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

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

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.