Quotes About Perspective

My effort is completely personal. Every time I make a film, I find myself in debt and I spend years trying to recover. I pursue this personal effort just to make it clear that there is another way to see things.

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

Communists are the last optimists.

So everything is something else.

You don't have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there's a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.

It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women--a new job, a new town, a divorce--which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long, slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative; something by which they may be so taken up that the practical outward changes of their lives in the world, noted with surprise, scandal, or envy by others, pass almost unnoticed by themselves.

you are rich in the things I do not need and poor in things I count important.

In the long run, an open airing of discriminatory ideas, and an ensuing debate about them, may well be more effective in curbing them than censorship would be.

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

En réalité, chacun de tes ennemis est ton remède, ton élixir, ton bienfaiteur, ton vrai ami. Car tu t'enfuis de lui et tu implores Dieu. En revanche, tes amis sont des ennemis. Car, en t'occupant, ils t'éloignent de la présence divine.

There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she'd be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now. See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.

A lot of women have trouble with their mothers-in-law." Raphael's look was priceless. "My mother is an insane archangel.

Our memories make us... even the darkest of them all.

An hour of your life is worth more than a thousand people to me.

I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I 'should' want. Sometimes there is no 'should,' there's only a single chance to grab on to happiness.

Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.

He understands evil better than any other person I've ever known. We disagree in how to eliminate it, but we do not disagree that it exists.

Drew told me to never, ever talk to him about sex. As far as he's concerned, I'll be a virgin until I'm a hundred, same as Brenna.

And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.

You can't protect my sanity by destroying yours.

Cupping his face in her hands, she looked into eyes that had seen thousands of sunrises before she was even a glimmer in the scheme of the universe. "But you have an advantage," she whispered. "You're a little bit human now.