Meaningful Reflection Quotes

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

It's not about the big deal you struck that day, it's not about the new car, it's not about the obvious stuff. It's about that little introspective moment you had in the middle of all that. Those are moments between the moments, and that's where life is.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

I'm just a philosophical journalist, trying to describe what's going on. I want to stimulate conversations, and hope out of them will come truths.

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.

Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.

I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

If you can depict situations and explore life in a truthful way and explore areas of grey - because that's where the truth lives - and you can do that in an objective way and allow people to take from that what they will, I think it's a satisfying sweet spot with storytelling.