Quotes About Open-mindedness

The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.

None of us should assume stuff.

The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

The biggest thing I've learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.

I did all sorts of things that you wouldn't normally find on an engineer's docket, but it made an educated person out of me.

I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

I try to study a genre I don't really listen to on a day-to-day-basis because there is honestly inspiration everywhere: it's best to go digging in places you don't normally go.

There are probably people who think I'm crazy for doing what I'm doing and they're probably right. Compared to them, compared to the way they think and feel and are so bound by norms then I am crazy, but insane or enlightened, it's all pretty close. I would say it's just how you look at it.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

It's a very generational thing: I am not interested in labels. I am who I am. I will love who I love, and that's the way it is going to be.

We see through the eyes of children that they're not talking about race the way we grown folks are. They're not talking about color or how much melanin is in someone's skin.

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

I prefer to listen to people who change their mind now and then.

At the end of the day, life and the way things are nowadays, you have to mentally prepare your kids. Whether I'm with a woman or not, walking down the street with my son, he's going to see a man and a man holding hands, so eventually I have to give him that conversation.

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.

I can hold space for people who think I'm a nut job. It's cool. But I know from my own experience what I experienced. I know what I learned. I know what I saw. I know what I heard.

In everything I do, I want people to get the message of acceptance, to learn not to practice contempt without investigation. I have an obligation to do it.

Judging people is not an awesome job, it only demands being level headed and a good listener and observer.

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.