Quotes About Perspective

There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we want them to come inside the theater. And, it's not the same.

In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is one thing, but it's actually a spectrum of where our life takes us.

I've learned over the years, when someone is complaining or wants to vent and has something they want to tell you, they don't necessarily want you to fix it.

There's a deeper conversation to be had on guns, and just because I happen to know where I fall into that conversation doesn't mean that I don't want to have that conversation.

What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

In this case, instead of thinking "I want success," think "I have success."

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.

People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.

People say many things, but at the end of the day people can say what they want.

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

I am a woman, and sometimes that impacts what stories I want to do.