Quotes About Perspective

I'm just a story teller.

As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive.

I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

I see myself as a story teller.

I met Edward Teller. Everything he believed in and stood for was antithetical to what I believed in and stood for. I like running into that in life. I like extreme points of view, a level of commitment - and I certainly love mastery.

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.

I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

Spreading the positivity is just as important as telling the difficult stories.

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

If you think America is great, remember that every person telling you otherwise may carry a clue to making it greater.

I'm not necessarily interested in telling the story of people who are super likable.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.

I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.

You don't want to end up telling somebody who's homeless or a refugee that stress is all perceptual, because it sure isn't in those cases. But most of us have fairly neurotic middle-class stressors.

I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

One thing that I think most people don't notice is that if you're sitting around telling yourself, 'I want to be happier,' there's a kind of subconscious message that you're also telling yourself at the same time, which is, 'What I have is not enough.'

I keep telling the players to enjoy the good moments. There are too many moments in this world currently that are pretty miserable and downbeat, so if there is light at certain times, I want them to enjoy it.