Jason Clarke Quotes

I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family.

Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

I didn't have a lot of friends. I just walked around a lot and made up stories in my head. Then I'd go home and write them down. That's how I got started.

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.

As a writer, I'm mostly at my desk, staring out my window. No one sees me.

I love the countryside, which is where I live and feel most comfortable, and hate being surrounded by herds of people.

I grew up in the countryside, in literally the middle of nowhere. We had one neighbor and a lot of sheep.

When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like writers do - with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I'd take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other travellers.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.

It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good for your imagination. It makes it stretch.

You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.