Quotes About Perspective

I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all.

I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.

You create a little world when you are making a film and you have to feel that you would want to be a part of that world. I sometimes look at the scripts I get and think 'what are they thinking?'

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.

Don't listen to you customers. They don't know what they want anyway.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

Though few would admit it, most of the time, when people are upset they don't actually want to feel differently, they want agreement and ways to make a situation, condition, or person change.

I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.

How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!

I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a fantasy of pleasure or of pain and fear.

I was marrying someone I loved because I didn't want to lose them; I didn't see anything wrong with that.

The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version. It's not a gimmick. It actually improves the viewing experience, but the movie stands on its own.

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether it's from the point of view of a dog, or a 15-year-old boy.

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?

I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.

Some people see what they want to see.

I wasn't sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.

I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.