Quotes About Perspective

It's funny to say its fun to explore someone's really rough time, but it is. It's exciting.

I like to explore different ideas of race, how the concept of race has evolved in the country. It's one thing I enjoy talking about, but I don't feel compelled to talk about it.

I don't relate to what is seen as 'Arab culture.' I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me.

Each of us has our own crazy on the show. The show's called 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,' but we're going to explore the craziness of everyone on the show... That's one of the attributes of the show I love so much.

If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.

I do kind of think there's a bit of an overemphasis on - in the community - on sort of achieving ever-so-slightly better state-of-the-art results on particular problems, and a little underappreciation of completely different approaches to problems that maybe don't get state of the art because it's actually super hard and a pretty explored area.

What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.

Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.

Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.

I grew up one of three girls, and none of them were into comic books, so I wasn't exposed to that world.

I've been exposed to so many different cultures.

I was was never really exposed to anybody who wasn't just like me until, basically, I went to college.

I think anyone can write about anything that they have knowledge of and exposure to.

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

I'm not a hater. I've expressed this before.

Kendrick Lamar is from Compton, but his Compton and how he expresses that is completely different than NWA and Eazy-E even though they were from the same environment.

The lack of exposure to right perspective has caused me to be in abusive relationships. When a boy stubbed cigarette on my leg, I thought it was out of love. You know why? Because our films taught us slapping in the face was a way of expressing love.

I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.'

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

Every time I play with somebody, your perspective gets a little extended. It always rounds you out a little more in some way.