Quotes About Subjectivity

I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.

A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.

In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.

You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

It is impossible to please all the world.

You can't please all of the people all of the time; you can only please some of the people some of the time.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

People have got their opinions, and you can't please everyone.

You definitely cannot please everyone at all.

Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.'

Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.

It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to work.

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

Music is not always going to be a mechanical math equation, where it's one plus one equals two. It's not always that simple.

A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

This is my point of view, and that's why I call the show 'Ramy'. I made the show that I would want to see. So it's only going to hit on certain things.

I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.