Reframing Perspectives Quotes

Our cinema is coming of age, and people are realizing we need to tell different stories differently and in fresh manner and not just do formula stuff and serve it to the audience.

Everything has been done. It's not possible to create something completely new, something that has never been seen before. It's only possible to make new combinations, establish new connections between things we usually take for granted.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit.

The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will be immovable on, and to shine a light on it.

If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing.

So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.

A lot of young people think it all comes to a screeching halt once you're 32. But it really doesn't.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.