Quotes About Perspective

Comedy always benefits from different points of view and even tension. It can never be satisfied.

The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.

I don't give any merit to criticism. 'Country Girls (Shake it for Me),' I can see where people view that as sexist, but I just view that as having fun.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

I just describe music as my point of view with a little edge to it.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

I have never met anybody who can change their point of view as easily as me. It's profoundly embarrassing.

What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.

I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I'll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible.

Most people don't take the long-term view. The media is more of a short-term reactionary view.

I did a lot of jobs when I was a kid - paper boy, grocery boy, all those things. I guess maybe I got a point of view then.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

When you're doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it's most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we're all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

I think the idea is to try and understand everything about the characters and where the character is coming from, from their point of view, why they say what they do. And not, 'Oh, but I would never say that. Why does the character say that?' But then making it as personal as possible.

I'm just one person with one experience, so really on 'Question Time' and in my comedy day job I just say: 'Hello, I'm Rosie, I'm disabled, this is my view of the world.' If you agree with that, if you can take similarities with that, great, but I never assume that I'm grand enough to speak for a fifth of the country.

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.

Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.