Dennis Muren Quotes

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

Photographers tend to have the non-judgmental gene

I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

I never feel like I'm looking to get away from my own self. Not as much as I'm trying to get inside the mind of somebody else.

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

When I write, it's like choosing which shoes I'm going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal - but I sometimes have to put myself in other people's shoes.

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

For millennia, human beings have been finding new ways to look at the world through each others' eyes: from projecting ourselves onto the characters in novels or movies to dressing up in costume to devouring the details of some celebrity's life in 'Hello' or 'OK.'

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

The beauty of cricket is that there are so many different opinions as to the best way to do something and at times it is easier to see something when you're not emotionally involved in the game and not responsible for the decision. You can go and have a cup of tea and look at it from a different point of view.

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

You can't see the picture when you're in the frame.

I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.