Quotes About Perspective

I don't expect everyone to agree with me. Frankly, I'd be shocked if they did.

I was a conservative kid, but I had fun. I was in a fraternity and stuff. I wasn't a player - that's for sure.

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

I am not a fitness freak.

I'm really go-with-the-flow, but I take things really seriously. At the same time, when things don't go my way, I don't ever freak out. Why? Why freak out?

I don't really think of records beforehand. I don't want them to freak me out.

I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position.

I try to think of school - this is going to sound awful - as something I do in my free time.

I've heard that babies cry all the time early on, which I'm fine with. But in my free time, I'm pretty sure I'll want to listen to something else.

I don't think I will ever understand what freedom means, but I am enjoying learning.

I have a lot of friends who say that one of the freedoms of being older is you don't care what other people think, which I don't think is right. You care what other people think, but if you're comfortable in your own skin, that doesn't bother you.

A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.

I think when you work enough on your doing freelance stuff on other films, you start to feel what it feels like to work with people who are not totally on the same page as you.

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

Sometimes a camera comes out and people freeze up a little, and I'm like that with normal cameras, but with a film camera, I feel different.

French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

Frequently I get asked if I'd rather have spent my career in a big city like New York or Los Angeles, where the exposure would be greater than in Seattle. My answer is no, not at all. Exposure is not important to me.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.

It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.

Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.