Ti West Quotes

If there's something good, then I'm going to want to work. If there's something that I feel like I'd be compromising myself on, then I'd pass.

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.

It's always hard to be away and relocate. When you relocate for a film, there's an end in sight.

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

I usually think in terms of music

I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides

I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff

Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."

I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

I'd been all hyped about it, I was like, "Please come," and to have that and know Tommy Nohilly is probably going like, "This is cool," it makes me feel good.

It's unreal. I mean, the dog backflips. It's amazing. Google Jumpy on YouTube - I had seen the dog first and I was like, "Y'all don't even know."

I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

The world was floods above and fire below

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.

I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

You have traveled far, but the hardest part of a journey is always the next step.

Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'

You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout.

I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.

Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.