Quotes About Perspective

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way.

I sometimes think this is just my life: I go to mow the lawn and sometimes go to space. But when other people say what you've done is really impactful, that's really humbling.

If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention.

I have always said that I do not pay much attention to what is said. Not to the positive and not to the negative.

It's easy to throw mud at coaches because we don't see - nor often understand - everything they do.

I thought 'Mud' would be such an easy film for people to understand.

I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally.

I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

At the end of the day, who at my age can say that they fought somebody that fought Muhammad Ali?

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional.

The idea of multiculturalism, that every culture is equal - that's not objectively true.

Multiple Bentleys isn't making anyone 'financially set.'

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.