Quotes About Perspective

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

Isn't it amazing how one small little guy can make us feel so bad about ourselves, despite the thoughts and adjustments that have gotten us to the places we are in our lives?

Women are not difficult; but they are difficult to understand. Men are not easy; but they are easy to understand.

Hand the secular Arab a glass of urine, and tell him that it is wine. He will not only pretend to enjoy it, he will enjoy it.

Arabic equals Sanskrit plus history, equals Greek minus tragedy

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

That is what stories can do, they can push the feeble disorders we live with out of sight.

Her ?ey karma??kt?r ve sorular yaln?zca yak?nl?k ve deneyim ile anla??labilecek ?eyleri basitle?tirir.

What is the point of literature? I think that the person who asks that question will not find my answer convincing anyway

I am a refugee, an asylum-seeker. These are not simple words, even if habit of hearing them makes them seem so.

I thought you'd come back to get married,' he said with a grin. 'Not to carry out an archaeological project.' 'Cut out that getting married stuff,' I said, and in this way we smilingly slid past the troublesome moment.

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

I don't jog. If I die I want to be sick.

Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable for the catastrophes rearranging their lives.

Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear and violence to rule your actions or whether you give wisdom, courage, and compassion the authority to do so.

MISUNDERSTANDING arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.