The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.
The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.
I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.
I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the lack of humanity I saw in myself was disgusting. I never took into account what a homeless person might have been through.
I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason.
I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.
You are only as good as your team.
I don't think it's a requirement that a happy, fulfilling relationship also provide the best sex of all time.
Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.
It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.