Quotes About Perspective

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

You don't go to the people that are just like you. You go to the people that you have to earn their credit.

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.

I'm the only person in the entire world who has never see 'Dawson's Creek.'

I don't see how I ever could have thought that having an all-white crew for a special about race would be OK.

I love cricket but I like being away from it as well.

I don't think there is a need to treat matches with India like a matter of life and death. We need to take cricket as cricket.

To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.

The first time I played Test cricket, I did OK because I had no real expectations, I was just going to enjoy it. Then I lost that.

Does it make a difference if I score 8000 or 10,000 runs in Test cricket? Not in anybody's life.

Cricket isn't the be all and end all. That doesn't mean you put in less effort or don't try as hard. You put everything into it, but at the end of the day there are bigger and better things.

In the cricket world, with a lot of little issues that people are getting in a tizz around, I'm just like: Don't worry about it.

Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the off button is.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

Everybody is their own critic.

I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.

I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a week, it's really only something you can do for a few years. After a while, it's a bit too much.

Don't be your own worst critic. If you're not confident in what you're saying, no one else will be either.

I'm not a critic, I'm not there to tell people what they should think about something - I just want to kind of enthuse about stuff to let people make their own mind up about it.

You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.

I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.