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I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.
I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
But I really like hosting, I think it’s a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I’m funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn’t audition. It was nepotism all the way.
Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they’re doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.
There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I’m the only person who can’t understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they’re not that great. These are questions everyone has.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
I don’t happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don’t know what’s funny about a character… This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy’s murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master’s master, the genius of the age.
I want to be as healthy as I can because I’m a mom now.
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
A father and two sons run Adelphia. It’s a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people – three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? ‘Let’s send the monkey to Mars, Dad!’
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He’d be a good film professor.
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can’t provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.
What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren’t. I’ve opted for the road of happiness and long life.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
The process hasn’t changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
Being rich and famous isn’t all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I’ve ever heard. She is amazing.
The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a ‘mortal sin’ subject to damnation.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
My dad saw my husband’s boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That’s what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.
My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she’s a painter.
I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.