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Jeff Nichols Quotes

Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1978

Topics

Character Problem Sometimes Chess

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

Nature Purpose Her Highest Operation

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

Great People Problems Everyone Being

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Myself Soul I Am Sin Anything Sure

I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting feelings, my sparklers and black holes, and my single visual hallucination of a little pink man and a pink ox on the floor of my bedroom.

Childhood Man Curious Pink Black

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

Women Men You Older Women See Been

In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to be the nature of the beast. The biographical notes on the dustjackets of the novels were terrific.

Nature People Beast Out Up Notes

The serious professional skateboarder doesn't have a job. They get paid enough not to.

Job Enough Professional Serious Paid

To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.

Character Time Me Saying Regret May

It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Life Love Father God Me End

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

Mirror Look Kid Pretend Used Elvis

Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America.

America Down Go Being Well

I just need to focus on myself. I think nobody should focus on others, whether they actually have a problem with Chinese swimming or not.

Myself Focus Swimming Think Problem

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