Kind Quotes - Page 225

I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures.

As a songwriter it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.

The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences of behavior than the behavior itself. Pulling a trigger and shooting somebody, or dismembering somebody.

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

I believe everything is autobiographical. If it's not strictly about you, it's your peers, your obsessions, things that make you angry, or things that you've been watching or obsessing about. Preoccupying you for reasons you don't necessarily know, but it's about you. It says a lot about you. It's like when someone tells you their dream and you sit there going, "Do you realize how much you're revealing about yourself right now?" It's kind of embarrassing.

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

Read more. Read. Read. Read. Deeply, widely, read. Learn all kinds of subjects. The smarter you are as an actor, the better an actor you'll be.

My dog doesn't like dogs, and I kind of get where she's coming from; I'm not too keen on people.

It is kind of weird being the last gang in town.

The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.

How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.

If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.