Quotes About Perspective

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions of food, clothing, and places. I want to understand the world to its core, through the eyes of those who live in it.

I can't imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot 'Lawrence of Arabia.'

It's different if you're self-fed by a culture such as the U.S. where it's so rich, you don't have to look outside. Everything's already there. But when you grow up in the desert, you have to be looking all over for inspiration.

I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn't make much difference. But now I've done my 40 years in the desert.

I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you've lived there, you become that way anyway.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't deserve to laugh at anybody else.

You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

Every child deserves to see themselves in stories they can enjoy, but it isn't the place of white people to decide how and why those stories are created and marketed.

As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be a designer.'

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

In terms of design, it's true the world has an influence. But, as a designer, you have to protect yourself. You have to look at the world and then forget it.

If I'm going to be the black designer, I'm going to tell it my way.

I don't really care what a designer has to say.

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way each person approaches it.

Designers have been uncreative and very arrogant. They need to listen to people. People have always wanted more exciting, interesting design, but we designers didn't see it.

When I am designing, I keep in mind more the American woman than the French woman.