One of the distinctions between democracy and other forms of government is that while democracy is messy on the surface, other forms of government are messy underneath.
Referring to the Watergate investigations:
Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.
Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with.
I don't care about style, but I am a total clean freak, so a messy home is a deal breaker. I had one girlfriend who never wanted to go back to her place. When we finally did, it turned out that she was sleeping on her couch because her bedroom was so messy. That is a prime example of someone I don't want to be around.
My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.
I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.
Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.
You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.
Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
When I do a show, I jot little notes for me to remember, and when the show is done and forgotten, I chuck them all over the car. My wife goes nuts.
My worst habit is my untidiness. It bewilders my family, the degree to which I can create absolute chaos around me.
Hmm... my bedroom's really messy. It's probably the messiest bedroom you could ever think of. Like, you think it's messy, but when you go there, you can't see one bit of floor anywhere. Clothes, makeup... I'm getting sent loads of clothes and stuff, so it's just piling up everywhere. I've to jump over it in order to get into my bed.
The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.
History seems to be so clumsy.
Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.
This life is messy.
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there.
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.
I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
