Quotes About Perspective

The single most eye-opening experience for me and what propelled me to become a filmmaker was that I started to see films from other countries.

Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read.

I ended up being exposed to cinema that a lot of other kids wouldn't have been exposed to.

Honestly, I had no idea I was different from other kids until I started kindergarten. To my family, I was just Lizzie.

I would watch 'Sesame Street' and see neighborhoods and kids with other kids to play with, and I just didn't have that. You know, we were on a lake. We just didn't have that stuff.

I was a big kid my whole life. I grew up among big people. My brother was a big kid. I didn't really feel like a big kid. Except for the teachers, who pretty much didn't want me to squish any of the other kids.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

If people love what I do, that's fantastic. And there's always going to be people who don't, and if I focus on that, then it'll destroy me. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me. Otherwise, it'll drive me crazy.

Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

I really ought to try and make a film that's a bit more cynical. But I don't think I'd know how to do it. I think what it is, is that if you're a film director, you're basically there because you enjoy manipulating people's emotions.

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

When I got out of the hospital, it was one of those classic things - you're looking death in the eye, and it changes you. I thought, I ought to go back on the road.

I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.

When you show people on the big screen that could be our next-door neighbour or our cousin, it does have an impact on our lives.