Outsider's View Quotes

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

America is a magical place, and I think my job, or the job of a lot of us European filmmakers is to just hold up America to Americans and present it to you in a new way. All I wanted to do is in a funny way say, "Look at your country. It's magnificent."

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

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

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

I wish everyone in this country could magically leave the country for six months and view the United States from the outside for six months, and I think you'd see a new perspective to the people of this country.