Quotes About Perspective

My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

You think the world owes you something, and it just doesn't work that way.

Everyone is so addicted to their damn phone. It's sad to see the filmmaker's work diminished down to a computer screen.

I think my work has become more interesting, well to me anyway.

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youÂ've made too much of it, to remember it doesnÂ't define you.

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

Sometimes buying the ugly work is the thing that you know you should do.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.