Quotes About Perspective

I used to find limitations frustrating, but I find them enormously liberating.

People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.

I think I, like a lot of people, have that type of brain where I find it interesting or fulfilling to worry about something.

An empty canvas is full.

I don't see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I've done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I don't think I should try to make a career out of it.

I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.

My existence is fuller of other people's experiences than my own. If they cut open my brain, these are what I would retain most.

I don't know whether having cancer has changed my attitude to life. I can't even say that now I live every day to the fullest I think I always have, really.

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

After you have kids, you feel differently about your body. Aesthetically, am I happy with my body? No. I definitely think you come to view it as more functional. But you just get past it.

I love working with women directors because of their emotional functionality and can undeniably connect with them on a fairly personal level.

I never even dreamed of being a chef, and that's fundamental.

Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

Most people find they have to worry about money; if you don't ever, then in some fundamental way, you are cut off from most people.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.

I think I fundamentally understand the way Trump thinks.

Of course, fatherhood fundamentally changes a lot of your life, but it enriches you, too.

We all have experiences that fundamentally shape who we are, that change the way we look at the world and what we work toward every day.

I've got a lot of military kids who are not in on-base child care, and they should be. So it's things like that I'm going to change, either from a funding perspective or a policy perspective.