Quotes About Perspective

I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna make anyone change.

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way.

I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

I've got my head screwed on in the right direction, for the most part. It may be turned a little bit to the left, but we're getting there.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

When I read a script, I always - the first question I ask myself is, 'Is there something that I could bring to it that maybe the next guy wouldn't?' Because I've read a lot of very good scripts and thought there are people who could do this better than I.

I understand Sean Penn. He has every right to look for El Chapo.

I feel dumber every time I listen to Sean Hannity. I don't want to be that guy.

Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

I was fortunate to be raised in Seattle, which was amazing, but that doesn't take away from the fact I was still a black kid growing up in America.

I can tell you this: we at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC - in any way, shape or form.

For me personally, I'm anti-gun and always have been and always will be. But I'm definitely not someone who is looking to abolish the Second Amendment. I think we're definitely interpreting it wrong.

Being a woman leader is secondary to me - and should be to others.

Even I run after money, but money is secondary for me. First comes the script and then my part in the movie.

It's not that it doesn't matter to me where I play, but it's secondary.

It took a while before I could sit across the table with Mark and not, every three seconds, think, 'I'm talking to Luke Skywalker.'

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

You can't take yourself too seriously. You have to be secure and make fun of yourself.

Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. New information comes in all time, and the thing we ought to be thinking about doing is changing our beliefs as that new information comes in.

No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us tend to use the 'bad' label three to 10 times as often as the 'good' label. And when we say something is bad, the odds grow overwhelming that we will experience it as such.

I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.

The most overwhelming factor was becoming a mother. The entire perspective of life changes overnight.

Life does not owe me a shred.