Quotes About Perspective

I don't really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.

If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

When doctors tell you that you have three weeks to live, you try to live a lifetime of moments in three weeks. But you say, 'To hell with three weeks.'

I've done more travel than I need to in my lifetime.

I feel like I've lived four or five lifetimes.

What's heavy for me when I lift, probably isn't actually a lot of weight.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

I'd rather be called lightweight than serious any day.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

My childhood is always going to limit me.

I'm attracted to people who are older rather than younger, and all ages have their potential and limitations.

I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations.

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

You can't be limited by your own experience.

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.

I don't really design for myself. It would be very limiting.

I don't categorise cinema at all. If I am doing this, that means I am limiting myself.

It's difficult to really assess what I've done right per say, but if I did have to point out, I'd say that I never really looked to have goals that will limit me. When one knows where he is going to or wants to end up, he/she actually doesn't realise that the goal is more limiting, than liberating.

I don't think in a linear form.

I used to be a stressed-out person. I'm not anymore. I try to find the lining in everything in life.