Quotes About Perspective

What we don't get as easily is that when we tap into our personal experience, the most vivid collection of life data at our disposal, we're relying on a similarly small sample size to draw conclusions.

it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Ask yourself where you're complicit in other people's stories. If you like them, stay in those stories. If you don't, don't. You're not bound to any of it, though remember that if you want to get rid of the bad aspects of something you'll probably have to lose the good aspects, too.

If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

They say it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. I disagree.

One thing Mauser leaned over the years was that students, almost to a one, viewed the world from the inside of a fishbowl. They had the bigger points covered—genocide in Kamchatka, illegal whale hunting in the Arctic Circle, shit like the. But if you asked about anything relevant to their lives they'd look at you with glazed eyes and go right back to sipping their double-mocha lattes.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

My father wants to take your favorite song and play it better than you've ever heard. I want to take your least favorite song and play it so good that you like it.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst. - Scottish proverb

The pause we're experiencing can highlight a basic truth: we may or may not walk this way again, and even if we do, we will never be precisely the same people who experienced that journey in the first place. Travel is only ever about a moment in time and space, but it's also about how we choose to hold that moment in our memories. It is always both present and past.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled , that's all.

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

He (Antonio Machado) was old, weary and ill, and he no longer believed in Franco's defeat. He wrote 'This is the end; any day now Barcelona will fall. For the strategists, for the politicians, for the historians, it is all clear: we have lost the war. But in human terms, I am not so sure. Perhaps we have won.

It is, but a virtue taken to extremes is a vice. If one does not understand there are things more important than the truth one doesn't understand how important the truth is.