Quotes About Perspective

My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

incident. "Nothing new." I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side. Evidently, nothing new has happened, if you care to put it that way:

A work of art is only a page torn from a life. It expresses this life, of course, but it could have very well not expressed it. No matter, for everything has the same value, whether it be writing The Possessed or drinking a cup of coffee.

At the same time, I learned that you always lose. Only the rascals think they win.

Les grandes personnes, établies dans mon âme, montraient du doigt mon étoile; je ne la voyais pas mais je voyais le doigt, je croyais en elles qui prétendaient croire en moi.

He pensado lo siguiente: para que el suceso más trivial se convierta en aventura, es necesario y suficiente contarlo . Es esto lo que engaña a la gente: el hombre es siempre un narrador de historias; vive rodeado de sus historias y trata de vivir su vida como si la contara. Pero hay que escoger: o vivir o contar.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work-wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage funny how life works out like that.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.