Quotes About Perspective

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

If you're locked into a philosophy of nickels and dimes, then you have a pretty limited approach to life. I don't need a lot of money to live with dignity.

When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

When you die, I think you re-live your life in a different dimension, in a different world but I don't believe in aliens.

Each of my roles affects different dimensions of my life.

Yes, as you age, the roles obviously diminish.

Some people aren't smart enough to understand the intellectual part of a being. That's why as a 30-year-old you don't have a conversation with a 15-year-old. I don't dine with 15-year-olds and talk about life. Our experiences are completely different.

I took one thing to heart that I heard from Sidney Poitier in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' And it resonated so much with me. He says: 'Dad, you always looked at yourself as a black man. I look at myself as a man.'

What kind of a dinosaur am I? I guess something like a triceratops. A triceratops is not too dynamic, but has a little strength.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

There is a certain highlighting of issues, be it emotional, be it social, or simply an entertainment one: they can be written or directed by a woman differently, with a different voice. I feel that their voice needs to be given more stage and more space.

It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's an advantage.

I think the biggest advice I would give to any actor who's directing and also acting at the same time is don't even watch your coverage. You do a scene, and then, you know what you did; it doesn't matter what you look like.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

Interestingly enough, there is a really different dynamic when you're directing something that somebody else has written compared to when you're directing something that you've written. And there's a good and a bad side to it. I think the bad side is that you never feel the same level of connection to the material - you just don't.

Writers are first directors. When directing our own scripts, we would have a better vision and clarity than directing the stories penned by others. I personally think that a writer's job is tough than a director's.

It is not easy acting and directing yourself because you have to face the camera as well as look at the scene through the lens.

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

If I'm in a good headspace, then it doesn't matter which direction things go.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.

There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.