Quotes About Perspective

I honestly believe there are good things happening in this world, and I'll spend most of my time trying to find them and bring them to light.

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

Ironically, the more deliberate we are in our work - cranking through our inboxes, clearing our to-do lists - the more myopic we become.

I think people tend to be very myopic and they don't understand how their actions impact others.

I love working in the kitchen, but when that's the only thing you're doing, you have a very myopic view.

If I were doing any better I'd be jealous of myself.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

Here's the most mysterious thing to me. I look back at those first plays I did and the first movies I did, and I only have one question, which is, 'What was I so confident about? Where did I get that?

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.

Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page.

There wasn't really a lot of difference from a Mississippi perspective between what Elvis did on 'Mystery Train' or 'Milkcow Blues' or what Bill Monroe was playing or what Flatt and Scruggs was playing; it was rock 'n' roll to me.

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

When I was growing up we didn't have TV in our house which is perhaps why I work in TV because it seemed such a mythical thing!

You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology.

Mythology has largely been written by men and focusses on men - on wars and men, who went to war. But, there are women who influence the decisions of men.

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.