Quotes About Perspective

I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'

When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.

My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor's guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: 'Don't enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.' I feel childlike somehow.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Clearly, we need to rethink our attitudes about water and move away from thinking of it as nearly a free good and a God-given right.

We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.

You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.

If some baboons just happen to be good at seeing water holes as half full instead of half empty... we should be able to as well.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

Sometimes I have to pinch myself to think: have I really come this far? Because it is quite different, where I find myself today, from where I started off, in the streets of Waterloo, in the suburbs of Liverpool - that's for sure.

Growing up in Waterloo, the Governor General's Award wasn't something I even thought to wish for.

Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.

I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who really had it hard. In our house, we had food on the table. We were doing well compared to many. So I concentrated on this fun and frolic, these novelties.

If you look at the statistics, it's a lot more dangerous to ride down a highway than a big wave.

Every camera shoots horizontal, right? So we're all super used to framing things with lots of horizontal room. We've seen this new wave of Snapchat stories and Instagram stories where people are actually framing for and recording in vertical. Whether it's better or not is debatable.

I went from silent films to watching French new wave cinema. I became entrapped by it all. That's when I knew I wanted to do film. The moment you start looking at film from a critique point of view - there's a difference between watching a film as an audience and with a critical point of view.

I never went through a wave of hating Christianity, even though my parents were born-again Christians, and there were a lot of ideas that were being practiced that I think were misguided.