Quotes About Perspective

You can't get too excited about your own medicine.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

My stuff is observational, what people do with their lives from the angle of a man that can't pull it off. So if I talk about having a family, it would be through the medium of a man who is in no fit state to be given a child to look after.

At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.

It resonates with me the way women tell stories, the way they see things, and the way they attach what they see to certain emotions.

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.

I try to be respectful of how other people think, I try to listen to what they're saying.

I think talking about things that have happened in my life gives people an opportunity in many respects.

I think that, for us, the thing that no one can take away from you is that if you make something that they've never heard before, they're gonna respond to that. They may not love it, it may not be their favourite thing, but no one can take different from you.

I go to Michelin-starred restaurants as part of my job, but that's not how I want to eat all the time.

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

I work very hard every day not to have a lot of expectations. You just let go of the results, because a book will be on bookshelves and in libraries long after we're gone, and, in some ways, whatever happens is none of our business.

Most people view success by the results, and I don't.

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled.

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled. What about study abroad will make you a better J.Crew associate?

The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

When my family urged me to retire, it made me re-evaluate everything for the first time.

I never think I am successful. If I am successful, then I should be retired.

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

I don't even understand what 'retirement' means.

I don't have any ambitions. I am looking forward to retiring, or at least having more time. When I was young I wanted more stuff, now I am older, I want more time.