Quotes About Perspective

Everyone wants to be funny. Maybe not everyone, but to an extent.

To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.

When you're writing about cops from the perspective of cops, that level of sarcasm about their job and how they treat people will color the writing to a certain extent.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.

Even when I play in World Cups, I don't look at things like that. It's something that I want to be doing, so why would I put extra pressure on myself? I'm just going to go out there and enjoy it.

I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?'

I have accumulated no money but I accumulate a lot of happiness. If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom - and then you die.

For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.

I've been wrong so often, I don't find it extraordinary at all.

I've never really been a careerist; I've never been able to step back and look at anything in that way. I though this is just what happens. I did take my work very seriously. I loved immersing myself in a character. I loved getting the opportunity to do that. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was, how lucky I was, because I was young.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

At extreme distances, there is essentially no such thing as depth of field.

My life has been extreme. Most people will not have the experience I've had. But the things that changed me, really changed me, they happen to everyone.

I understand that all the songs I write are quite melodramatic and are quite extreme from my perspective, but that's how life feels to everyone at some point.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

We here a blink of an eye, even if we make it 75, 80 years, you still here a blink of an eye. Enjoy it.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

'Exculpatory' is in the eye of the beholder.