Quotes About Perspective

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.

I write a lot about race precisely because I don't believe it's real.

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.

You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little... The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper... A bad guy wouldn't think of himself as bad.

When TV came, people said who will go to theatres to watch movies? When the Internet came, they said the same. And now it's the digital media... The doomsday predictions are always there but I don't think people will stop going to cinema halls because that is one experience you can't get at home.

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

I prefer working behind the camera.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

I think I prefer 3D to 2D now.

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.

I prefer to stay poor.

I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.

Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.

I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.

Everybody has their opinion on what's 'real,' and what's they choose to listen to and their personal preference. Whether they're 2 years old or 200 years old. And people can listen to whatever they want.

I believe every photographer is influenced by their sexual preference in a greater or lesser way, and it certainly has affected me.

I never really wanted to be a singer. I always preferred to be behind the camera.

I've always preferred being behind the camera.