Quotes About Perspective

You definitely need self-belief and confidence, but there is a very fine line between that and arrogance. I would like to think I sit on the other side of that.

People say I am a little bit weird with the way I go about things, it's a fine line.

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

It is a mistake to assume that everyone listens like you do: your listening is as unique as your fingerprints, and so is everyone else's.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips.

We will never finish everything on our to-do lists. It's not possible, and that is life!

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.

When you finish a drama, you go, 'I can't wait to do a comedy.' When you finish a comedy, you go, 'I want to do a dramedy, dark humor.'

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn't need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor.

With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a screen. But a book is an end to itself, really.

When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion humans living off a single, finite planet.

I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

I'm kind of a firm believer that songs can have a shelf life with an artist.

I am a firm believer. I don't follow any particular religion. That's the way I was brought up.

I'm very lucky in that my feet are firmly on the ground.

I never thought anyone would come up to me and say, 'I like 'Better Call Saul' better than 'Breaking Bad.'' If you had asked me before we started, 'Would that bother you if someone said that?' First of all, I would have said, 'That's never gonna happen. And yeah, it probably would bother me.' It doesn't bother me a bit. It tickles me. I love it.

If you don't like an ad, why should anybody else?... We're all consumers... That's why I always create commercials for myself first of all. I am the consumer I know best. If I think it's a great commercial, I figure the rest of the people might think so, too. I haven't been wrong so far.

The best dumpster meal I has was the first one I had.