Quotes About Perspective

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

At the end of the day, 'My Deaf Family' is about a typical family that all of us can identify with but told from an unusual and what I believe will be a fascinating perspective.

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.

If I'm in an unusual or extreme social environment, I always want to know what it's like to grow up there and experience it as normal, everyday life. And I want to know what sort of adults these children are going to turn into.

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

The U.S. is such an unusual place in the world because you can believe anything you want.

Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the world.' And it is true; books have invited me into different countries, states of mind, social conditions and historical epochs; they have offered me a place at the most unusual gatherings.

What is unusual is not always threatening. What is different is not necessarily strange.

I'm developing some high-frame-rate 3-D processes that are going to be, I hope, indistiguishable from reality. This will be quite an unusual cinematic event - you don't just tell an ordinary story, it's more of a first-person experience where the melodrama doesn't get in the way. Being inside the movie rather than looking at the movie.

We're always steered towards what is good in the canon by a male perspective. I like to do plays with a female protagonist who finds her way through. My way is unusual.

I don't think everyone is equally haunted by high school, but I also don't think it's unusual to be.

I'm becoming more of a religious person actually as I get older, which I think is not an unusual phenomenon.

My parents are very unusual characters, both of them - they're both only children, and they're great, but neither of them are the sort of standard idea of a parent, and not of Jewish parents.

The majority of my life is not competing on 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' so if anything, that was unusual.

Thinking back, the majority of the conflicts I've had in my life have been a result of offering up my two unwelcome cents, crossing that line between constructive truth-telling and preaching.

You know, I'm not unwilling to listen to people just because where they're coming from. I'll listen to them, but I'm not going to be beholden to them.

God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.

If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.