Quotes About Perspective

I'm only speaking for myself, but having a kid has put everything else in my life in perspective.

In the face of Covid-19, everything else seems a side-issue.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

People who believe in creationism say that by teaching evolution you are indoctrinating them with science, but I just don't agree with that.

Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.

There are enough roles for everyone, and I truly believe that the roles that we end up doing are the exact ones that are right for us at that time as people and as actors.

Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

If I ever see someone from high school I haven't seen since then, the relationship may not be exactly the same today, but I treat it as such. I don't want them to feel I've gotten too big.

I make a film - and once I've made it, everyone comes along and says 'Ah! This is a film that's political, or social', or whatever. But I'm not telling the story that they see. I made a film, told a story, but I wasn't thinking about exactly what it all meant.

We all can't stay busy doing exactly what we want to do.

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.

I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people you thought were one way and in fact are another. They can allow us to examine ourselves.

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

We try so hard to be excellent and only want the best of the best but, instead of the greatest day ever, try to have a good one.

The films that excite me most tend to be the films that seem like voices that we haven't heard of before.

Football lost its excitement for me.

With every person you meet, there is a new and exciting experience to be had.

When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

Reading and exercising are two things in life that are not necessary.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it.