Quotes About Perception

I think you're much more approachable when you're on a small screen.

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

I hate watching myself on screen! I absolutely hate it, it's so hard to watch. I can see myself in magazines, but watching on TV or movies is like, 'Ugh.'

I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

I never like seeing myself on screen.

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

I don't like seeing myself on screen. Whenever I see or hear myself, I think, 'What is that eejet doing now?' I'm in the wrong business. I don't like the limelight.

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way.

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.

Being in the limelight has made me more fashion forward because I am under constant scrutiny. So, I have no choice but to be fashion conscious but otherwise I am not so much into it.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

When 'Sex and the City' aired its first season, people didn't know about HBO as a place for original series. People weren't saying, 'Oh I've got to watch 'Sex and the City'!' They found it later. In some ways, it helped change what people thought of HBO.

Rankings don't always mean what they should. Sometimes the numbers - the butts you can put in seats mean more.

People in Seattle and Tacoma know who I am as a person, and I don't think I am a character risk or have a character issue at all.

We don't think of HQ1 being Seattle any longer. We really think of it as Puget Sound.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

It took a while before I could sit across the table with Mark and not, every three seconds, think, 'I'm talking to Luke Skywalker.'

People see me for 30 seconds at a time, and they see someone who's got a hair and make-up team that put them together, and they're looking all right in the world, but it's not.

If I take five seconds to think about something on TV, that five seconds is an eternity.

I'm trying to provide entertainment, and I hope that people can realize that it takes more than just me playing a shot in 30 seconds or 40 seconds for us to call it slow play.

I saw Cruyff at 36 and the way he played was interesting because he was so quick to understand situations. Football can still be very nice at that age because even though you are not as strong or as quick, you can still see things that others see two seconds later.