From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.
I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It’s really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.
I’m not a bleeding-heart feminist, but I do like to call out that stuff in my act. It’s nice when you find a perspective that no one has hit on.
I don’t find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I’m terrible or good enough for me.
The ‘Billy On The Street’ persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child – obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.
What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition; that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus.
I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It’s not that I don’t want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
I think it’s healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it’s important to do that.
It’s so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their own meaning. That’s what’s great about it.
Failure. It doesn’t exist. ‘Failure’ is just what happens when we lose perspective.
So you’re dealing with a coach, and you’re dealing with a guy who’s actually experienced NBA basketball from a player’s perspective and actually goes about it that way.
Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things – things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.
From an animation perspective, it doesn’t get better than Pixar. You’re working so much in the blind because the huge circle of collaborators that’s required to pull off a film like this means that you are just one small arc in that large circle. The level of trust that you have to give into is significant.
