Quotes About Open-mindedness

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

If you say to people, 'I'm off to Papa New Guinea,' you'll often get a bad reaction - usually from people who've never been there. There's this fear of the unknown. And 99% of the time, you end up surprised - it rekindles your faith in humanity.

I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.

I love diving into the unknown. That's been my M.O. ever since I was a kid.

I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

I want to re-visit everything. We're people and we're so different. I think it would just be nice if it wasn't just like, "Eww, women." That would be a big thing for me.

Don't talk over me, don't argue with me, just listen.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.

Sometimes, the answer is right outside your door...so open it & see things in a new light

Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder.

I've been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn't going to be 'Apocalypse Now,' and every director doesn't have to be Stanley Kubrick.

My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!

I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?

Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.

I don't really have that many judgements on things, or crazy statements that I feel like I have to put across.