Quotes About Perspective

In this larger conversation about diversity, we want to really show that we're all the same. We are all experiencing the same stories.

The majority of my time working is with adults, so I have 'experience' without experiencing it.

I don't think 'Road' is an experimental film.

Who's to say who's an expert?

I'm no real expert on China.

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself.

I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.

I can learn a lot from reading briefing books and talking to experts, but that pales in comparison to what I can learn from going out and talking to people about what they're actually experiencing and hearing about their ideas.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it's all the same to me. I am very communist in this way.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

When I explained my business model to my family, they asked if I was going to open a travel agency.

People always ask what my inspiration is, and it's never something that's easily explained.

I explained to my kids at an early age: I'm a normal dad with an abnormal job.

We simply keep telling our kids that you have to listen to us, you have to do what we say, but do we take the effort of explaining it to them that why they need to listen to us?

You either like something, or you don't; you won't change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it.

All art is exploitation.

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

I have a pretty positive view of environmental activism, but I didn't know much about the ELF. A lot of people make documentaries because they have something they want to say, but I make them because there's something I want to explore.