Quotes About Perspective

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

Every work experience is a positive work experience, and if you're looking at it any other way I can't help you.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

I really feel lucky that I still feel excited about the actual work that I get to do. I just happen to love it, and I could easily see, for somebody else, that not being the case.

I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.

I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?"

I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".

Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.