Thinking Quotes

Fashion brings out what you are inside. A lot of people think it's got to be blue jeans, a Black coat, three inch heels. But it doesn't have to be like that. I enjoy just going for it

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate.

I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.

I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you’re really going about it the wrong way.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life.

I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.

I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.

I really think it's important that my beliefs don't impinge upon what you get from the movie. It's your opinion that matters and it's far more interesting than mine.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

I think about it all the time. I love filmmaking. Whether I'd be in front of the camera or behind the camera, I just love that world.

I think when a time comes, a change comes, and you have to recognize the change but also believe in yourself.

I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.

That's what I think when people do their "best stuff" collection. When you start to think, "Oh, I will just present my 10 years of work," that's not a good sign.

That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.

In life, we all learn from everyone. But if you like and admire someone tremendously, perhaps because they think the way you do, or like the way you think, then inevitably you do.

I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

I've done collaborations in all my movies, and I think it's part of what I enjoy about the process. This kind of intimacy that you create. Because it becomes very intimate.

I think that television has become really, really interesting, in terms of character development. You can have 13 hours to develop a character, as opposed to 25 minutes in a movie. That excites me.

I think everybody's looking for religion to believe in. I think we all need faith.

Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading.

I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America.

I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.

I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of "Drive."

I befriend people too quickly - I don't think that's wrong, but I get told that I should be a bit more careful.

You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every day.

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

Take all the hype out of the exercise and think of it as brushing your teeth.

I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better.

I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And [there are] days you're great [and] days you're not great.

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.

I think if you have someone to love and someone who loves you, that's the greatest beauty secret.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.

I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think for us, we really have to show up and participate and give. And then let go.

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.

As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.