Ti West Quotes

People seem to think I'm Satan.

No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all. It's the only reason people have heard of me. It's only been a huge, huge, very fortunate bonus.

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.

I'm a rather crude cook.

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

I never knew a man who got so hurt in his pocketbook.

To God's own heart be true.

I know how to make money and I'll make it.

Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.

When people come together, they become much more productive.

Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't.

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

Pacing is really important in an organization.

I really appreciate it when people say "no" to me. I want people to understand that I'm totally supportive of what it is they're trying to do as long as we're all on the same team.

I trust people, and I respect their areas of responsibility.

I think that's just one type of leadership, which is the type I have: the need to find a new way and take responsibility for other people.

I think in most companies you're surrounded by the past. You may have a Web site or archives or a lobby that sort of shows off your work of the past. The future is not as tangible.

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

With enough libraries, all content is free.

What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, its a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

My attitude is tattooed that means it's permanent

Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you.

I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.

I want to dress like a child as much as possible.

Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.

Everybody gon' say something. I'd be worried if they said nothing.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.

Brands are selling our self-esteem back to us, through association. We need to own our brands.