Quotes About Perspective

Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles.

Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.

As I ran out of grandparents at the age of 16, the only time I ever see old folk is when I'm over-taking them on a motorway, they're in my audience laughing at filth, or in any park.

I feel very lucky. The older I get, the more I see how random everything is, the luckier I feel to have been born into this context; the more responsible I feel to be the best that I can be as a person and as a professional. That was a quality... of the men on my father's side of the family.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

There's random people calling my phone: 'Your mother gave me your number.' My mother has tried to set me up so many times long-distance.

I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.

'Yeh Hai Aashiqui - Siyappa Ishq Ka' has become a part of who I am. I will be narrating the stories, and as a narrator, I get to experience each story up close and personal and go through the same range of emotions as the characters.

I'm a huge fan of Doordarshan, so my influences range from international to local.

I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.

I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.

Kanye has this discursive way of working, getting input from a range of people, that I thought was really cool.

It's funny, people don't think of 'Cloverfield' as being restrained because it's a handycam movie, but the only reason it's a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation.

It's funny; people in Europe seem more interested in decay in America than Americans.

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

I just feel like there are a lot of funny things that happen in this world and I guess that's for the good and the bad.

The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same.

I've got a funny way of looking at things. It's because I'm dyslexic, and I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger. And I'm left-handed as well.

When I was making the 'Fast and Furious' movies, I wasn't trying to make a 'Fast and Furious' movie.

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.

A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot.

You don't get further outside than I do going into Washington, D.C.