Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces. ”

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know? ”

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays. ”

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world. ”

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater. ”

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life. ”

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can. ”

I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know? ”

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is. ”

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct. ”