Idealised Quotes

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Well, I`ve had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody`s idealised version of you.

I don`t try to sympathise with my characters, I just try to empathise with them. To try to understand. If I sympathised with the characters I would make idealised, romantic characters out of them, which I don`t do. I don`t idealise them, I just do normal characters, not very sympathetic, but just the way they are. I think I do this in films that are made in the shape of a question, not in the shape of an answer. They just try to make a very open statement and it is down to anyone`s subjectivity to find his own answer to that.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.