Quotes About Subjectivity

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

What do you say to a guy that says a tree's sexy.

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours and the truth.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.