If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.
Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.
We have to figure out why we see the world in different ways and then how are we going to adjust so that we can at least still understand each other.
Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you. If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend.
To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.
Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.
The reason to have more racial diversity on any team is because it's helpful to have different perspectives on any issue. And I also believe that. It's easier said than done, unfortunately.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'
I find myself trying to explain more, and explain the perspective of my mentality, or the mentality I'm trying to convey.
What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.
My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.
Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.
As a heterosexual designer, it is really, really important to have a woman's point of view.
I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.
You have to hear from people who believe something different from you. That's why you go to college.
My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt to find a position with which all can live, brings the expert and the public dimensions together.
It's funny - until 'Catfish,' none of my films were angled at young people except for the fact that they were angled at me and my contemporaries. And that's who I'm constantly making things for. I'm not imagining a younger audience I'm trying to impart wisdom to; I don't want to seem pretentious enough to think I can impart wisdom.
