Quotes About Perspective

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.

It depends on who you talk to if I'm part of the establishment or part of the antiestablishment.

I can wake up crazy or normal; it depends.

Work like your life depends on it, but remember it doesn't.

I did not want to depict Al Gashey as evil. I wanted him to come across as someone who did what he did for reasons that were compelling. Whether or not we agree with him is a different matter.

I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.

What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.'

I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.

I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being depressed until I'm happy. That's all there is to it. I need space.

This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think.

Christmas is cheery for some people and depressing for others.

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.

A small lens gives you a very specific look. You don't have a shallow depth of field.

Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men.

I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.

I can't even begin to describe what kind of a response 'Humsafar' got. Personally, I feel my other show, 'Zindagi Gulzar Hai,' was better, but it didn't match the success of 'Humsafar.'

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.'

That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.

Film has to describe and show.