Carl Jung Quotes

I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things. I don't like superhero things, I like real-people things.

When I go to the movies, I want to see a human being dealing with their lives. That's all I ask.

Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

It's been really important to me to create moments where there's a breath or moments where there's a laugh or moments where there's real life that's allowed to seep in through the cracks of whatever melodrama is happening, because that's what does happen in life.

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

My main question that I ask of my characters is, 'What does it feel like to be you? And how do you get through the day? Where do you find the hope and faith to endure getting through the days, and what are your days like?'

I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.

I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.

To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?

I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That's what makes us all tick, and that's what I've always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that.

Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people.

I have been through and seen so many dramas and traumas and been in so many situations that I can probably interpret a few different characters.

I want people to know that I'm not just 'Chillin' It.' I'm a real person. There's heartbreak and trials, and I hope I put that in my music.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

From my perspective, most of my life has been dealing with the day-to-day, kitchen-to-bedroom-to-living-room-to-garage life with people. Most people are just trying to figure out how to love the people in their world, to love their God and to deal with some of these questions about God.

I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?