Quotes About Perception

John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.

I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn't Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key.

You've got different people that have different views of New Orleans. When you say 'New Orleans,' you have people who just think of the Neville Brothers. You've got people that think of Louis Armstrong. You say 'New Orleans,' and you've got people that think of Lil' Wayne.

Even in Haiti, I saw John Wayne movies. American cinema has always been the dominant cinema throughout the world, and people tend to forget that. People aren't just seeing these films in California or Florida. They're seeing them in Haiti, in Congo, in France, in Italy and in Asia. That is the power of Hollywood.

The treatment of Wayne Rooney told me something about the way England fans view the national team.

The only reason skaters hang around this guy is because he's Lil Wayne, but they don't like him. I've talked to skaters; nobody likes Wayne as a skateboarder.

People can say I'm fat but I know my own body. I always look big because I'm bigger built - I've got that Wayne Rooney type of body.

Audiences want Burt, John Wayne and others to go on doing the same thing forever. It's critics and the actors themselves who want actors to try different things.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Slow motion goes one of two ways. It either makes it look really, really cool, or it makes it look really, really bad.

I've always known that I have a different mentality. I can move in different ways and that's for people to realize.

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.

I think that different people are objectively attractive in different ways and a big part of the romance genre for me is in discovering what that true attractiveness is.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they're really funny, all the ways they describe the most depressing things.