W. H. Carruth Quotes

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.

I am a control freak but it's important to feel strongly about the material you're working on.

I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you're obligated to not say things out loud.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.

Now I am almost entirely love.

As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded withGod for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.

The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic comedy for college girls. I wouldn't know how that works.

I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

Some call it Evolution And others call it God.

Beauty was worthIts every sorrow, mind's fading or World's ending, As darkness covered the garden that is the earth.

Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?

When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

Some part of me broke in prayer that morning, and some part of me was reborn as I gave myself fully and completely to prayer and to God in that moment.