Life Observation Quotes

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.

One of the things about acting is you can always use your life. You have to recall how you are and how people are and how you relate.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you’ve really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.

My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.

My songs are based on my keen observation. I have picked these situations from my surrounding and have presented a real situation about the youth and their mindset.

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

Some people observe life naturally and sometimes you just have to let things out and think about it later.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

I don't watch a lot of movies. I watch theatre, read books, and observe life.

I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.

I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life.

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form