Quotes About Perspective

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino experience, even if that broader look was itself merely a specific perspective.

I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.

My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters.

I used to think that, when I was a director, I would have a very specific vision of what everything would look like, but now I am more of a camp counselor.

Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration.

I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.

When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.

For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.

You can never predict what the specific shape of your life is going to be, and you won't really know its general shape until, God willing, you're advanced in years and you have the time and opportunity to look back in a coherent way and see what your life was about.

Something that happens to me is that I'll write a play specifically from my own experience, and then I'll inevitably be told that I'm being tunnel-visioned about it. People always ask, 'What about that other race? Or discrimination toward those people?'

To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you.

Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's always going to be one of my favorite cities, but it was getting to the point where, after I'd moved to New York, I couldn't write as specifically about Portland any more.

I don't know anything about bullying in Huntington Beach specifically, but I would assume it's very similar to other places.

I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.

I'm all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that's dope. I've got a daughter, and I think that's amazing. But when you're specifically picking on guys, that's when it's not right. 'No Scrubs' is the meanest, dumbest song ever made because they need to be specific in certain areas.

It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.

Growing up, the question of faith and the question of God, specifically with Christianity, has been something that's informed me quite a lot, but it's also very loaded. The way that it's often expressed in America is very different from the way that I view things.

I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little speck.

I don't have the need to be the greatest of all-time anymore, 'cause I'm just a speck of the greatest energy to ever exist.