Lenses Quotes - Page 4

Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.

Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.