Quotes About Perspective

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well."

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that, people tend to go there.

Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

Ellen Langer's work has been an inspiration to me for years. Counterclockwise, her latest book, will change the way you think about your health – for the better. It's simply fabulous.

It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.

I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.

When I had my child, I planned on being with the woman I had him with for the rest of my life. If that doesn't work out, you have to see things from a different perspective.

I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I'm most valuable when I work with a team of bright people who complement my weaknesses with their strengths.

I try to work and enjoy life, and that's about all.

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.

I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading authors who's work was composed in the languages I happen to have learned.

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.