Quotes About Perspective

Is Michael Moore an honest documentarian? Honestly? I don't think he is... The real discussion gets left behind the entertainment value.

As much as I like Michael Moore - and I'm on the same political side as him - I think his documentaries are really a batch of manipulations and lies.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

I saw all the moral decay you could, beginning at 2 years old. But I also got to see how the other half lived.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

Denouncing Nazis is the easiest thing in the world: All it requires is a modicum of historical perspective and a working moral compass.

I appreciate both good and bad - I don't want to sit in a bubble where everyone just tells me everything positive to keep my morale high.

Being morally honest means sitting down and actually listening to a person and understanding where they're coming from.

My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate.

Cinema is not Bible writing. It doesn't teach you morals, good values to live. Cinema is not meant for that. If you're looking at cinema that it'll tell you good values then you're mistaken.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

When you're growing up in Jamaica and you don't have much, and then you gain more and more... you can now share the more that you have with the people that have less because you know what less is like.

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.

I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.

As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.

Just as I got older, I think I've become more and more conservative.

I always maintain that the film industry and film people across the globe are more or less the same.

Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation.

The fact is, I'm half-British, half-Malaysian. For an Asian who's grown up in America to be commenting on how Asian I am when they've never left America... does that make them more or less Asian than me?

I can't really sit around and talk with people who believe that the Bible is the way it happened, because that's man-made. I'm a writer, too; that's how I look at the Bible. Like, 'I could've written a better version than that,' you know? At least a more interesting one, and then maybe more people would go to church. I could definitely do a revamp.