Quotes About Perspective

When I'm 18 I don't get any more school time on set, so you only have a limited time to do it. You learn every day, and so I don't think of it as a chore.

With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive.

I've chosen difficult men. But then I'm sure they'd say they'd chosen a difficult woman.

I've chosen to live my life in love and that has made even the most trying times beautiful experiences.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

I was a Christian when I was young and didn't know any better.

There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'

I'm not a Christian.

No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true.

I don't think anything predated Christians.

I know it sounds crazy, but as soon as Christians start telling non-Christians how to live their lives, we've lost the Christian faith.

I'm such a chronic relativist, I can't hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

I have always said that the biggest difference between stage and cinema is that one has got close-ups.

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make my plays the opposite of that - something a bit more cinematic. I'm a film kid, so I'll never have the same love of theatre as I do of movies. It's just the way I was brought up.

I really do believe that the experience of having a child is going to actually make me a much better cinematographer.

In a lot of ways life has come full circle for me, which I'm very grateful for.

What we take away from our school and college years is especially personal and rarely transferable to someone standing outside that circle of experience.

I personally am not very interested in awards or the awards circuit.

You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.

You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

Resilient people recognize that no matter how bad the circumstances are, their situation could always be worse. They don't allow themselves to exaggerate how terrible their problems are, and they don't run around predicting how much worse things are going to get. Instead, they view failure with an accurate perspective.

People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed.