Quotes About Perspective

I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

My work is a mitzvah for the eyes & ears...and it will help you forget about your problems by thinking about mine for a change!

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

In thinking about His many blessings, you view God's work from a new perspective.

I don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my work.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women

I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.