A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
Historians in England will say I am a liar. But history is written by those who have hanged heroes.
We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.
I have brought you to the ring, now you must dance.
History is written by those who hang heroes.
In cinema people are always walking into something and saying this is who I am, what I want, and how I'm going to get it and we don't in life - particularly not in public situations. People might know your first name, not your last name, they don't know what you do, and you're not going to offer it up. So if you start there and you realize this is a much more normal presentation in a film then you would ordinarily have; you know that there is a big life behind what everyone presents and that I think is super interesting.
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story. ' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.