Quotes About Perspective

I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

Anytime you look at someone in detail, you're putting the camera on that person. What I typically look for is one or two or three really strong characters who will hold the narrative throughout the work.

For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?'

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that is much looser than current events.

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

From a narrative perspective, 'Blue Shift' for the PC and 'Blue Shift' for the Dreamcast are very similar.

Do we really want the truth, or do we want a truth that fits our narrative?

What I'm really proud of Beyonce and Solange, they understand the importance of creating the narrative. It's all about the narrative and how you position yourself with your narrative.

I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

People always want narratives to be clean and easy.

The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's a whole different thing than reading about it in the history books. You're able to really personalize it.

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

Narratives are very important to me.

We usually center our narratives that come out of Hollywood from a white male center.

We need new narratives in culture, and to do a better job of showing more diversity.

I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts.

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.

There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a bit more laid-back, and that gave you time to think about things differently without perhaps being caught up in the narrow approach to one's journey through life.

When it comes to talking about beating certain teams, we can be narrow-minded when we need to look at the bigger picture.

For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.