Quotes About Perspective

I do sometimes feel like I function within an echo chamber and I'm just kind of preaching to the choir.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.

I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself.

'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist.

I don't want to preach to anyone, because if someone preaches to me, I just turn off - I've been preached to my whole life.

We don't preach, but we just tell you what we think, and it provokes thought.

I try not to be someone who's preaching a message with my films or anything like that.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.

Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.

I'm not like a preacher or philosopher, but at the end of the day, life is about happiness.

I don't think of myself as a preacher.

Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow.

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

You're immortal, aren't you, until you get a little peek over the precipice. The thought of death...You're not supposed to start pondering it until you're old. And there's nothing like being told you've got a life-threatening disease to concentrate your mind on that.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.