Quotes About Perspective

People often ask whether you'd alter anything about your life. I can honestly say I wouldn't change a thing.

Imagination is very important to having vision and trying to find things that are different, alternate ways.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

One of the guys I used to watch was Georges St. Pierre. Watching him, I thought this guy is awesome, he's doing all these amazing things... I was 16 at the time and I thought he was like 32, and it turned out he was like 21-22.

I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

I'm not a particularly ambitious person.

I could have been more ambitious but I am quite content.

I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories - the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music.

I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.

If I put anything negative in me then it seems to amplify the situation. I have to think positive.

I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.

What people don't understand is that when I hear what somebody has said about me, I wonder, 'Don't you know what they are saying about you, too?' It's quite amusing.

I don't want to be an opinion anchor.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

If someone says Wes Anderson is an auteur, I'll believe it 100 percent. Fine. He's an auteur, but I'm not.

I'm second, and so my brother is first. Being second, sometimes you get left out and all of that. The anecdotal stories about the firstborn, the baby, the middle - all of that is true.

I don't do anecdotes. I accumulate experiences.

No Barstool writer has ever said or written one thing out of hate or anger. It's always to get a joke.

Anything can be interesting as long as you access it from the right angle.

You can joke about anything. It just depends on your angle and the way you go about it.