Quotes About Misunderstanding

Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.

There are people that you don't like because you're jealous of them until you meet them. And you haven't read their book because it's had so much attention. Then you meet them and discover they've been jealous of you, and you become friends.

I thought 'Mud' would be such an easy film for people to understand.

People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

I've kind of gotten mad over the years, reading different Punisher stories and seeing multiple Punisher movies. Nobody gets the character right.

The parents in 'You Can Choose Your Friends' were very much Mum and Dad but my brother wasn't like my brother, and he got quite annoyed because he thought I was saying that was what he was like.

Can I call up any actor in Mumbai? I can, and they can say wrong number and hang up!

My own son called me Eddie Murphy's brother once. Once.

With cab drivers, I always say I'm from Brazil. I don't say I'm from Israel. It's happened more than once that someone is blaming me for the government's policy. And I say, 'Listen, I live here. I'm a musician. I don't call the shots.'

Who told you I was a musician?

The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do.

When I met my wife Vicky's family, I had to go out of my way to convince them, to show them, that I wasn't anything like their idea of a musician.

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

I thought everybody would embrace and understand my reasons for becoming Muslim.

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.

Most Americans do really think that Muslims all want to take over and they don't want democracy and they want nothing but Islamic law.

There's a general ignorance about how Muslims live and what Muslims believe.

I think that Muslims are criticised all around the world.

I was sort of mute when I went to art school. There were two girls there who thought I was German because I only grunted.

After I'd met her, a mutual friend prompted me to ask her out for dinner, but she said she had a night shoot. I thought it was her gentle way of rejecting me. The next day she invited me for a drink at the Pierre hotel, which turned into a three-hour talk.