Quotes About Perspective

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

Age is just a number baby, what are you now? 40?

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

It comes with age. I can't watch movies that are inhumane.

The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.

As you age, feelings do diminish.

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

I don't want to age myself.

You can only understand the present age when it is past.

The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.