Quotes About Perspective

I've never even watched one of my films since they're completed.

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

It's no different than anything else in anybody else's life. Doesn't matter how simple or complex. There are days you hate it and days you love it.

We all have complexity in our lives.

For me, keeping it simple is the best way to live life, to not complicate things, to sort of keep things in perspective.

Business isn't complicated; we complicate business.

Life isn't easy but it's not as complicated as we make it out to be.

If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

Getting a compliment, even if you need a cooty shot afterwards, is still a compliment.

I take the fact that people cast me more in negative roles as a compliment.

When things come back and we're in some small way cast as the originators of a movement, we don't take it as much as a compliment as some people may consider it.

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're also supposed to be able to write characters and scenes in a way where it's just a matter of fact, a component.

I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.

I don't really call myself a composer.

I'm not an architectural composer.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.

It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the composer meant. Well, it's what the composer meant in that moment when they wrote it.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.