Quotes About Perspective

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.

I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.

Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'

I'm not a journalist or a politician or an activist.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.

Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.

I'm not interested in showing a politician falling over; it's about the issue and making people think differently about that.

I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.

I'm a comedian. You have to understand that my brain doesn't work like a politician's brain.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm not a politician.

As an actor, the experience that I have as a politician while sitting in Parliament - that helps me enrich myself as an actor. But I am an actor first.

The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.

Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... it's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians - by America in general.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

The world is governed by opinion.

Everything is politics.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.