Quotes About Perspective

When you have the blue screen, you've got another set of eyes, eight months down the track, designing what you should have been designing on stage with the actor.

As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American experience, it's probably even more important for black people to have that expanded view.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

If you feel more emotion looking at a picture of queuing lorries than a picture of desperate humans living in a lay-by, you need to check your bedtime routine for someone beating you round the head with a meat tenderiser.

I can't remember ever being desperate for money, even when I didn't have any.

When you talk to people in working class communities about men, the women aren't telling you that their guys are looking desperately for work but can't find it. An amazing number of them aren't interested in working.

I did like 'Despicable Me.' I thought it was quite good.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

I'm happy - despite things that might have happened in my life.

Despite all my experience of being a player, I've never had the experience of being a manager which is a different concept from being a coach.

Despite being a woman, somehow I have always found myself idolising male characters.

I wanted to do '2001' from Hal's perspective. What it finally ended up being was 'Final Destination' in space.

You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.

The desire to be right can be very destructive in relationships.

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

I like to be in that space, the same middle-class man. Otherwise, you become completely detached from reality.

Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.

I see things differently, feel things differently. That's how I've always been, and that's why I'm different to everyone else. Information: simple. Detail: simple. I just aim to play as if it was five-a-side as an 11-year-old kid. That's how I see it because that's how it is.

For women, detailed conversation is our lifeblood, while for men it's just not as critical.

Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask questions about details that I haven't even thought about.

I believe that for the audience the best way to give the commentating is to avoid going into the deep, deep details.

It's totally different playing a lawyer and a detective.