Quotes About Subjectivity

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

It does not matter what others think, 'beauty' is just perception.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.

You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

One person's car is another person's scenery.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."

When the candles are out all women are fair.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

I shall not today attempt further to define [pornography]… But I know it when I see it; and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

Sometimes the opinion is like a shoe, you have to find the shoe that suits you best, but don't force me to wear your shoes.

Man is the measure of all things.

A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl.

Everyone thinks his own thoughts are best.

Memories are like dreams, free of meaning save for that which we choose to impart.