Quotes About Perspective

When you grow up, life makes you so busy that you completely lose the excitement around a festival.

I don't set out to make a film for festivals abroad.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

I didn't fall in love with boys - but a few men have been in love with me.

Everyone in New York wants to move to London, and everyone in London wants to live in New York. A few people want to live in L.A., but I'll never understand that. It's too much for me.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

There's quite a few people who said they couldn't play with two drummers, and I don't understand it. It's no different than playing with two guitar players, two trumpets, or two anythings.

When I walk into a new organization and I don't know the industry or the people, which has always been the case, I do a few things. One is I think about the business from the outside in.

The important thing is not the measurement of how many or few things you have, but your own state of mind and how you feel about the things you have and don't have.

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

I mean, you can't really enjoy some of the games that you've had. Like I think I've had a career-high night or whatever and we still lost. I'd much rather have the win and had fewer points.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

I always take a fiction break in between business books to keep the content from bleeding together.

In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.

I've always been second fiddle, man, to everything. Everything. But I never believed that I was lesser than this person, that person, anybody. I always thought I was on the same level.

I wasn't really an old-time breakdown fiddler.

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

Most educated people are not set up to listen or change their minds about politics, however sensible they are in other fields.

I can't believe we're in the middle of the fifth season, and if this is all there is, my God, it went fast.

It's the best fifth place I've ever had.

I saw 'Fifth Element' once when it first came out and never thought much of it.

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.