Washed Out Quotes

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Making 'Sound of Silver' was very emotional at times, where I just hated making that record.

Every film has been a personal milestone for me.

I always feel that my films ought to teach me something about life.

Football wears you out, and when things are not going well, it's not enjoyable.

I always find another version of myself in each of my films.

I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

You are the accumulations of your experiences at any given point. And when you express something those things come out. The thing is I hate seeing my films when I'm done with them, so I don't look back as a chart of my life, but I leave it as a kind of chart. Though, it is a photograph, captured.

I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

I don't understand what I do, I just know that it's great.

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

I don't want to deconstruct what I do.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

For me, I'm constantly writing stuff that is what I'm dealing with on a personal, psychological level. And I think that I bring that to whatever I'm doing, whether it's being an actor or a writer or whatever it is I'm doing. I think you can't help but do that.

Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see it.

I reached a point in my life where I didn't really like who I was.I was married to an amazing woman. I had children, and yet there was frustration.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.