The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.
The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.
If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.
There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.
Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn -or answer the call of Death's dark horn. Without a gleaning of purpose in life, we have no vision, we live in strife, -or let blood fall on a suicide knife.
Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.
In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.
People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.
There is never a specific theme or anything I have interest in. Really, I make decisions based on decisions that are made by other people and whatever is presented to me, and I do it on a first come, first serve basis, and go from there.
A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.
There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.
If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.
Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’ Like a little lost Sputnik?’ I guess so.
The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
