Quotes About Perspective

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Facts and particulars annoy me.

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.

Most of the time, you think the problem is not as big as it is - because it says something negative about you or your company or your leadership. Face the reality: The facts are not as you want them to be.

I don't believe people are interested in dates and facts. I don't think it is interesting to say what it is to be this person or that, but I do believe it is entertaining and perhaps even of value to express how it is to be that person.

If you agree with everything I have said, then I have failed.

We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

Having failures in life is important to understand where, exactly, you stand.

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.

I really think everything is fair game.

I think we can fairly conclude that writer-director Joss Whedon didn't make 'The Avengers' for me.

I've lived all over Europe, spent a lot of time in London, went to school in Scotland, college in America, so I do think I have sort of a sensibility on a fairly global level.

There is no fairness out there. There is no balance in the media.

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all.

A lot of the time, I read something I've written, and I think, 'Well, that's competent. It's not exactly breaking any boundaries. It's not exactly transgressive. It's just a bunch of fake people in a room talking to each other. But maybe there's a value to that.'

When you're 16 you write about different things to when you're 21 and have fallen out of love and been on the road for six years and have a house.