Quotes About Perspective

If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.

When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

My wife says to me, 'You have achieved a lot'... yeah, I do know. But... there are a couple of things I haven't.

I might not be as successful as other actresses in the industry, but for me I have achieved success.

Achievements are often more interesting to you when you look back on them.

Every director should take an acting class.

The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.

I don't think I ever saw acting as an actual career until late.

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.

I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.

When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues.

Adjusting to space is easier than adjusting to Earth for me.

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

I don't admire actors so much, actually.

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

My biggest strength in life is that I'm good at learning and I'm really good at admitting when I'm wrong and recalibrating my perspective.

Even 31 sounds quite old to me, because my brain is probably still in a state of adolescent delinquency.

As an adopted kid, it means a lot when I hear women say, 'I don't want kids.' I have a lot of respect for them.

Having all that - the fame and adulation and women and all that stuff they talk about - doesn't make you happy. You have to make yourself happy.

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.