Quotes About Perspective

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

I'd like a telescope, but I probably wouldn't look at the stars that often. I'd definitely be looking into people's flats most of the time.

At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.

Anytime a movie or television show retreats into certain American pasts, I'm both annoyed and relieved.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how a television show was made, if I would turn on somebody else's show, I would sit there and analyze it, like, 'Oh, so they had four hours in this location and had to get out and the number of set-ups, etc.'

I just don't think you can lump television shows together.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

It's kind of hard to tell your life story and state all facts and it still be sweet.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

Everybody is always like, 'You must be a really good liar,' and no, I'm actually a truth teller, and I'm telling someone else's truth. If I'm lying, then I'm not doing my job correctly.

I was never a joke teller. I don't even like jokes, for the most part. I don't like to hear them, and rarely can I even remember one.