Quotes About Perspective

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

I never saw gender as a barrier.

I think the biggest thing I can say to that is every female is different. Not that every man isn't, but speaking on behalf on my gender, I think women can watch sports exactly like men, and others watch it exactly the opposite way.

If there is a woman filmmaker or a woman artist, the issue of gender is floating very close to their work... It almost naturally comes into their work. If one looks at all the male artists, the issue is never there.

I am blessed with a funny gene that makes me enjoy life.

Let's cultivate an environment, not just in beauty pageants but in society in general, where we argue like we're right but listen like we're wrong.

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.

From a financial perspective, you have to think about what the film will generate in revenue so you can set a budget against it.

Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

Music can be new to you but not new right now. It can be really fun to ask people of different generations what they used to go see.

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Jesse Eisenberg, this little nebbishy guy, as Lex Luthor? For me, that's a genius move.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

What I like is finding new angles on genres.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years.

I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.