Quotes About Perspective

Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade.

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

Men like us who live on the edge and had this player life - and for even some that still do - we gotta respect women - we gotta understand that their position here is much bigger than what we might give them.

As an actor, you can go in, and you give your best performance, but if you hand that performance to ten different directors and ten different editors, you get ten different movies.

I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s. My wife knows everything about music, and I try and get her to educate me, but it's just not part of my DNA.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

For all its deranging effects, I am always grateful to Twitter for the interesting ideas it surfaces.

What's important to me is that the ego hasn't taken over.

When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.

If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.

I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

The election of 2016 changed a lot of us.

America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country after the election of Donald Trump.

There's a TV element to everything in my eyes.

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

Growing up in America, even in the rougher parts of Elizabeth, I had two nice playgrounds to choose from as a child.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.