Quotes About Perspective

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.

Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.

I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

There is no original truth, only original error.

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I feel like at this point in the world of just creating anything, you're not going to be able to create anything new. I think the closest thing you're going to get to originality is a mixture of influences.

Looking back now, if I went to film school, it probably would have helped knowing what the best of the best of foreign films were, but that wasn't the case. In some ways, I think that led to my originality, because I hadn't seen anybody else.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.

'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.

I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.

My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.

I've lived in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Dallas. I started in Orlando, so I've been north and south.