Ti West Quotes

I always feel like the less you say when you're making a movie, as a director, is the best. That means everything's going great.

It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome.

Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these Western things.

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.

I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.

If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.

If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.

It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.

I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.

It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable.

[Valley of Violence] was written for James Ransone. PJ's a friend of mine, I've known him for a long time, he's always like, "Dude, when are we going to make a movie together?" I finally called him.

I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic.

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.

I don't generally watch the movie [ The House Of The Devil ]. It's sort of like hearing your voice on tape.

I like movies that leave things in the hands of the audience.

It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.

I don't believe in right-angled turning points.

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.

Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...

how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I just needed time alone with my own thoughtsGot treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

Love is cursed by monogamy

Our work is never over.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

My bookcase is all yours."I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the world.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.