Comedy’s so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn’t get it, doesn’t find it funny, then fine.
Every time we do anything artistic, the way it’s perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it to be because it’s subjective.
I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that’s great! Enjoy it, and don’t let anyone tell you not to.
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
I’m more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
Confidence is the biggest swag, and that comes with success, which is subjective.
There’s a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, ‘What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.’ It’s always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.
Comedy isn’t subjective like music. You either get the laughs or you don’t.
Comedy is subjective.
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I’m interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.
I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
The word ‘happiness’ always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it’s subjective.
Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they’re inherently subjective. And that’s the danger, and I think as long as we’re aware of it and can push back against it, I don’t think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.
Acting is very subjective and one can’t be deterred by what people think of your work.
Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.
In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I’ve been thinking about how subjective history is.
Everyone’s personal style evolves based on upbringing, exposure, influences, personality, etc. Style is subjective.
You know, there’s nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you’re doing, yourself, if you figure you’re doing the right thing.
When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you’re narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn’t work.
Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
Does not the very word ‘creative’ mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death.
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.
I feel I’m often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it’s frightening to them.
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn’t beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
I try to make all the action in my movies subjective: to give a sense of what it would feel like to actually be a part of it.
Nutrition advice is, quite frankly, subjective.
Fashion is really funny because it’s something that should be subjective, but there are clear things that are chic or not chic. There are all these rules, but if the right person breaks a rule, then it becomes a trend.
What makes a lot of suspenseful films work is very, very particular points of view and very subjective use of the camera.
I keep trying to convince people that I’m OK to wrestle, and I think that’s probably the hard part. A lot of times I’m trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It’s really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that’s the part that a lot of people don’t understand.
Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.
But when you’re in something together, it’s very hard to be objective and you’re very subjective.
The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it – whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that’s always and everywhere a subjective decision.
I’ve had ‘Spanish Flea’ stuck in my head since 1998, so in a subjective sense, that is the song that’s playing whenever I enter a room.
The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
Feminism is so subjective. Because of the generational divide, and because we’re living in a completely different world than someone in Africa or even Scotland.
With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
It’s always weird when it comes to awards and awards season because how can you say that this performance is better than this performance? Art is so subjective.
Humor is a very personal, subjective thing.
I’m open to comments. I’m open to objective points of view, because I’ve been very narrow and very subjective.
The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.
There’s something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, ‘I’m good.’ Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, ‘I could do that.’ And maybe they could do that. But they’re not.
In comedy, it’s so subjective; there is no right or wrong.
But I don’t actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.
Human beings are inherently misled into subjective fantasies, but there’s a saving grace. We all have different delusions. Other people don’t necessarily share yours, and hence they will help you penetrate yours through the miracle of criticism!
Comedy is subjective, and any joke can be funny.
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There’s an objective and a subjective camera, like there’s a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
In my view, technology should only be used on objective situations – offside, in or out of the box, over the line or not – but when it comes to subjective situations, people are never going to agree. That’s sport.
Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.
Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.
Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you’ve found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don’t know.
That is – the use of the subjective camera is an idea that’s been around in movies for a long, long time. And it’s an idea that was seized on very notably by Sam Fuller and by Alfred Hitchcock in two different very kind of – otherwise very different styles of filmmaking.
Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don’t believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
Comedy is subjective, so if you don’t like it, that’s fine.
Comedy’s really subjective, you know.
I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it’s subjective and we’re moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level.
I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
