The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, I will not be silenced.
Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.
I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.
It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.
People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it,. . . The reality is, there are a lot of football players like me who came out of the middle class.