I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.
A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.
Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.
It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.
Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.
Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.
The best kisses in the world take place at night, in the ocean, with two naked bodies coiled around one another, only the stars to keep them company.
You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.
Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.
Faultless to a fault.