We Are Not Quotes

I am not afraid of the word tension.

You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?

Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.

They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.

Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

Treat yourself like an overweight, out of shape person and that's what you will be. Why not train and treat yourself like an athlete?

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

What? It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art

Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.

I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms...why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

Entrepreneurs stand out from the rest of the pack because they are not afraid to take big risks and they aim to please no one except the people who truly matter.

I'm not afraid of anything other than spiritual annihilation. Where your soul is sucked into the void.

Progress not perfection.

The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I'm not sure I'd want to give them up; a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.

Comedy is not pretty.

My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.

I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.

So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty?

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

I'm nothing if not honest.

The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures.

I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay.

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.