I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.
No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?. . . We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.