Quotes About Perspective

My best year was probably 1948, and after that, it's been downhill for me.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

I didn't even care where I was drafted.

We weren't living with each other on 'Drag Race.'

Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.

When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget. You need that perspective. To give it a cold eye.

Life shouldn't be something that's draining and long.

It is very difficult to make something like slice-of-life interesting. I don't think many people have done the slice-of-life dramas as good as TVF has done it.

I prefer social dramas.

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

The inspiration for 'Human' came from a conversation. We stumbled upon this question: sometimes you think a problem is a problem when sometimes it isn't. And it takes you to have a little step back and realize you might be a bit dramatic.

As a filmmaker, the most dramatic and the most dread-inspiring thing is when the audience can see more than the characters themselves can see.

Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.

I'm drawn to opportunities that are going to challenge me and cause me to look outside of my own experiences.

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.

I never dreamt of captaining Australia. I couldn't care less if I captained Australia or not.

The financial people, who lead such dreary lives, believe what they read and see on television.

Growing up in Iowa I could have had it a lot worse. My family was more worried about my education and my health than the fact that I wore my sister's dresses.

Abidal was a player; he is loved by the fans, and that's why he should know what it's like inside the dressing room and how players feel.

When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.

When we were younger, but still of legal drinking age, it would be things like Goldschlager or peppermint schnapps. Things like that are not something I ever enjoyed.

I'm not driven by money anymore.

My stories are character driven.