Quotes About Perspective

When I'm doing a part, I'm not coming with any baggage of who did what. I looked at 'Force 2' as a fresh film. It's a new story and a new director.

My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

Shooting a new story out of order every week is a fundamentally different beast than stage work, where you tell the same story every night from beginning to end.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.

The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.

The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing the world.

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?

Sometimes getting beaten isn't such a bad thing. It gives me a chance to look at myself in a new way.

Do everyday things in a new way to get the brain thinking in new ways.

It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.

A lot of people from Buffalo haven't even been outside of Buffalo. Probably 75% of Buffalo never even been in New York City. We just come from a different kind of place. You just have to be from there to kind of understand that.

People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.

People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.

I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.

You know it's time to step back and take a long, hard look at yourself when a New York City cabbie is giving you life advice.

I lived in Manhattan for 12 years and grew up outside New York City, so that was definitely how I saw the center of the world.

It's weird, in New York City, we consider anything above Manhattan 'upstate.'