Quotes About Perspective

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.

Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.

Anyone can write your own life story.

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

One of the saddest things in this world is to see a child grow up hating one of their parents because they only got one side of the story.

There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.

I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.

I always like to tell a story.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.

I like the 'Keystone Kops' storyline. It didn't actually go quite the way I wanted to, but it was another great way to show how different life was in these two different corners of the DCU, being on the ground in these different areas.

The idea of having different characters is really just to get the storyline across, you know? Coming from one particular character makes, to me, the story boring. I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there's multiple characters who carry the storyline.

I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a 'New York Times' bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.

I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.