Ben van Berkel Quotes

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.

Hide me from day's garish eye.

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

Inside the car is truly my own personal space.

Everyone has secrets, and I think some people flee from home - far from home - to try to keep those secrets.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

I am private.

I just love my privacy.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.

I manage to hide in my movies.

If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.