'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.

When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and I said,…

— Melissa Febos

I'm not going to let Defense Distributed go into a pro-social NGO territory. "We should really have more women on the board." That's navel-gazing…

— Cody Wilson

Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and…

— Tim Heidecker

I try not to be super self-referential about my work because it becomes like navel gazing at a certain point.

— James Ransone

Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creatures. We…

— Kehinde Wiley

In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a…

— Rainn Wilson

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

— Richard Linklater

I think people forget how radical the narrative of 'Slacker' is. There's no story, you know? We could go from one character to the…

— Richard Linklater

When I did 'Slacker,' I didn't own cowboy hats or boots. I was like, 'That's not me.'

— Richard Linklater

Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before…

— Richard Linklater

In interviews, I never wanted to play into the myth of, 'Yeah, I was sitting there doing nothing, and then made 'Slacker.'' No. I'd…

— Richard Linklater

“For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons and precepts,…

— Stefan Zweig

We live in a time where there's a great deal of navel-gazing with the devices that we have that occupy so much of our…

— Ng Chin Han

“The universe of his own feelings keeps crowding everyone else's out. It is a constant struggle to see other people as people, rather than…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom lens effect,”…

— Sol Luckman