Quotes About Perspective

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

You can't convince people of certain things. You let them think what they want to think.

My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed of.

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.

In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense.

Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.

If you ask a filmmaker to analyse his own film, it would take three or four years to do that, honestly. Because when you make a film, you have to be convinced about it. You are married to that film for a year.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.

My kids always joked that I spent more time cooking the birds' food than I have cooking for them. And it's probably true.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

I always wanted to be Romeo, not Juliet. Romeo is a much cooler way to be - Juliet's just up in a balcony, waiting.

I love how much people are drawn to my 'impersonations' of Trump because they aren't really impersonations at all. I'm not trying to be Trump so much as I'm trying to make Trump me. In doing them, I simply ask myself, 'How would I, Sarah Cooper, say these words?'

Every cop isn't a bad cop just like every NFL player that makes a mistake, we're not all bad guys.

I don't own copies of my own movies.

I think every person is different in coping with pressure; every person thinks differently. For me, sometimes it is difficult because people expect so much of me.

I feel for the cops; I feel for us as a society as a whole, period.

Growing up where I'm from, some people are afraid of cops. They don't really like cops. And what a lot of people don't realize is, they're really not the bad guys. They're really on our side, they're really trying to help us out. And sometimes, we don't understand that.

Why aren't there enough black cops out there? We need black cops to come in and educate some of the white cops who have issues.

I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now and it is harder to run away from them. It would be embarrassing for an older man to get arrested by someone half your age. So I gave up running.