Quotes About Perspective

Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

I'll always see myself as a British filmmaker, powerfully so.

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.

All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.

I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

I think filmmaking is a strange animal because it's anti-Democratic and collective at the same time, but I think it's all about not trying to know everything better than everybody else but making the right choices.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

I think it's really important that you don't get caught up in the way the filmmaking community isolates you and the way your life ends up being.

I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.

I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop laughing that they just took something in that's going to start a conversation.

The artist is a combination of what's happened to them in their lives and how it's filtered through the way they think. That's what makes me different than Samantha Brown or Anthony Bourdain.

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

If you worry about what's going to end up in the final cut, it's like you're thinking about the endgame.

Everyone goes on about Manchester United all the time, but they're just another team in the final. I don't see it as anything special.

I've finally become an old guy.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn't have believed it.

If you focus too much on business or finance, then sometimes you don't move ahead as much as you could.

I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

I don't need to be on the number one show. Number 25 is fine.