Quotes About Perspective

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

At my worst, I was so fearful of death I'd think about it for six hours a day.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.

As fearsome as Covid-19 is, it is not the Nazis.

The first director who ever allowed me to shoot a film for him was a male. He was a gay male. My first feature also came from him. I worked for a lot of dudes at NYU.

Let's put it this way: if I were to direct a feature film, I would not be in it.

The strength of 'The Gift' is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves.

I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it.

I think it's important to have as diverse of a feed as possible.

If I follow someone, and I don't like their Twitter feed, I unfollow them and often have a changed opinion of the person.

When I was 13, we went back to Argentina to live for a year. I got to see my extended family - really see them: where they grew up, how they lived. It was a different kind of struggle. There is no money. There are no jobs. And they still have to find a way to feed their families.

If you work all the time, you don't have many life experiences to feed back into your work.

I don't think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have to feel good about who you are and that you could do something to change things.

Information that confirms our beliefs makes us feel good; information that challenges our beliefs doesn't.

I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.

I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.

You don't feel good about being criticised, especially when you've been loved so much.

People are entitled to their own opinion to make them feel good, to make them sleep at night.

A lot of stand-up is talking about your perspective in the world and your experiences in life. And I think it takes any comedian a while to find out what their thing is, or what they feel good doing on stage.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

Everyone is different, and every relationship is different, and I think the rules can change, and feelings can change. It's not only about who you're with, but also where you are in your own life and your own process.

It's never as good as it feels, and it's never as bad as it seems.