Quotes About Perspective

I love the sci-fi movies where it's from the point of view of humans in that situation... When it becomes too clever in its ideas, the cyber-punk, high-tech thing, it becomes more about something else.

As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.

Before stand-up, I'm not sure I even had a point of view.

There are lots of podcasts that look at films from the audience's point of view. There are also plenty that look at it from the combatants' point of view. It's invariably the case that the less likely you are to have heard of the people talking, the more interesting they'll be.

You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.

With comedic news, it's about having a point of view. If you don't have that, you don't have a show.

As an actor, you have to believe in the point of view of a director; as a director, you have to be able to express what your point of view is and invite everybody to join you on that journey. So it's always about opening up.

I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me.

As a young actor, there's a lot of hubris. You come in with guns blazing, all kinds of ideas as to how you want to play a role, and you endeavour to convince people of your interpretation or your point of view.

Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point of view.

As a heterosexual designer, it is really, really important to have a woman's point of view.

My advice is that it's easier to write than direct. If you have an interest in writing, write. You might as well start with yourself or some event you know well, and you need a point of view.

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the audience decide.

Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.

Whatever the case, oftentimes, for a story to feel complete to me, I need more than one point of view.

If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm on the other side of the argument. 'Ulysses' would be better if it seduced me. But I probably have the minority point of view.

A lot of the time, because we don't have many Latinx scenarios on the landscape, not just in television or film and other media, we haven't gotten the chance to tell our story from our point of view.

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

You have to be responsible to yourself... but that doesn't mean you can't have a point of view about something.

Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot - this side and not the other side. In cinema, there's one truth - not 'the truth.' It's only 'my point of view.' Cinema is powerful because of that.

We want to change to point of view about Latinos in the world and Colombians. Forget about the bad past.

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

If you make 'PKP' from the girl's point of view, it would have been the other way round. The boys would have been wrong for the girls. That wouldn't have been misogynistic.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.