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The question, I’ve come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?
In one century, we’ve added 28 years to our average life span – a change so rapid that our brains couldn’t possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
When you’re a catalyst for change, you make enemies – and I’m proud of the ones I’ve got.
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they’re all about change.
I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it’s not working, I change the position.
Even God cannot change the past.
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.