The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.
What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.
One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.
One day I'd like to beat you at your own game, but your game is badmitton so that will probably never happen.
The way to build a strong future is by both protecting the environment and creating good jobs.
Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want. . . but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy. . . try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science.
I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!