David Mitchell Quotes

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Place colors everything; It is the thing by which I find my way in my fiction.

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

Environment is stronger than will.

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself....The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings.

I am what is around me.

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.

Where we are is vital to who we are.