Quotes About Perspective

A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

My work is not directly about the social or political.

Since I descend just as directly from Catherine de' Medici as I do from Diane de Poitiers, I have no personal interest in damning the one while glorifying the other.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

Every director is completely different.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.

So okay, the world through my eyes, what is that world? Well, I see a lot of dirty stuff, and I see a lot of dumb stuff.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

Not everyone agrees. If you disagree with me, I want you to tell me, and I'm going to come back and tell you why it's my opinion.

I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it.

You can have a great, deep connection with somebody and still disagree with their actions.

An idea you disagree with has to be fought with a better idea.