Outsider View Quotes

Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

In a way, perhaps, there's an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you're the storyteller, and you're pulling out this universal story.

As a Canadian, I've always approached international history as an outsider, neither attacking nor defending key decisions - those were made by actors who are also major figures within national historical traditions for American and British scholars.

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

Foreigners see in our society virtues that we have not seen and problems that we have not seen.

I don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will.

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.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

I didn't play baseball my entire life, so I do bring something a little more unique to the telecast and I get really excited about stuff that, maybe if I had been around baseball my whole life, I would just say, 'Come on. Everybody knows that. Its not a big deal.'

It’s always easy to see the unity from the outside.

It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.

What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.

From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.

Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one.

Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly.

I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.

The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.