Quotes About Perspective

I want to keep the British side of my sense of humor.

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes, and then it's not you anymore.

There are no hard and fast rules. Your sensibilities change as you grow older.

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think.

When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.

By and large, I think female directors are far more sensitive.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.

We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.

In my own life, my science and my religion are separate.

I think marriage and live-in relationships aren't really different. It is just a piece of paper that separates the two.

Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.

To me, every serial is equally important.

I can be serious, but there's got to be a lighter side.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

I simply take serious issues seriously, but I do not take myself seriously.

You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.

You can't take yourself too seriously.