Stuff Quotes - Page 96

It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising an orphan and wanting to take away everything there is and replace it with stuff I've made.

I have soundtracks for a lot of stuff.

I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.

How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

I like to hide behind my intellect. But the truth is, unless all of us start getting honest about what the reality is, things aren't going to change. If we all keep pretending that we know stuff and if everyone else would do what we knew and everything would be a better place, then nothing is going to change.

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.

When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.

I was doing stuff that for me was sort of more about playing real music.

I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today.

Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.

Certainly it's great to be able to talk to your friends about something. They might mention a film, and you can find all about it, and you don't have to wait months until you can find a book that might cover the subject and keep it in your head. You can have that kind of immediacy. But there's also something about it, where all the knowledge seems kind of fleeting. All the stuff I learn about in that way, I can be interested in for a day and then it's gone.

When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

I've always been attracted to action stuff.

All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?