Quotes About Subjectivity

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

If someone doesn't like something, it's their prerogative not to like it. It's not possible to please everyone. That doesn't mean that I'm going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct.

Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

I never want to be an artistic bully, and put myself above anyone else... or be more prestigious than anyone else. You like what you like, and you have to take that as you want it.

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

The most important thing is to allow gaps and openings for people to make up their own minds - I don't want my film to be pretending to have one important truth to tell anyone.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

There's kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn't. It's kind of like dating. You either connect to someone or you don't. You can't really say why.

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

Laila Ali is not my definition of the best.

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.

I think the definition of 'the greatest racecar driver' is different to everybody.

I think you could turn on any channel and see a sexy guy, depending on your barometer of what sexy is.

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

I think it's really hard to describe music without alienating somebody.

It's always hard to talk about music and describe a song.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

Just because I've played this character doesn't mean I have any understanding of what Diana was like, at all. Although I'd want to say she was incredible, I understand I also have no authority to say that.

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.