“Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.”

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I’ve never thought that. For me it’s always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I’m not as weird as most of them.

Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?

One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.

It thereby exercised the power of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In imagining Rousseau to be right, we have become what Rousseau imagined.

Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.

With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one’s colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.