personal perspectives Quotes

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the only way to approach the universal.

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.

Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Today, for good or ill, people are thinking about many social problems from the standpoint of their own kitchen tables. I think the way to begin a conversation with people about what's going on is to address their daily experiences, and what their fears and frustrations, as well as their exhilarations, are.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

It's different for each individual. It's different when you talk about homosexuality. It's different when you talk about a malady like deafness. Everybody might have a different response to that and that's what makes it an interesting subject to throw in a movie.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

That's what the world's about - different perspectives.

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

Everyone's got a different story.

The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.

The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

'Justice' actually means different things to different people.

Everyone's got their opinion and sometimes it's going to hurt.

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

For some people, the highlight of their entire month could be going out and eating a pizza or watching a movie at a multiplex, and here I am visiting four countries in a month. So, in that way, movies have made me socially aware. I now know how simple people live their lives.

My grandmother is very liberal, but... she still has her opinions.

I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.