Quotes About Perspective

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else.

Western music is Bach, Handel and Schubert. It's good music, cleverly done. As a musician, I can see that.

As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.

My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for seven years while growing up. But what we think of as royalty in the U.K. is very different to royalty in Nigeria: if you were to throw a stone there, you would hit about 30 princes.

I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts. If you want to know why we unerringly seem to get China wrong... this is the reason.