The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.
The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.
He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.
For me, it was always clear that Toni Erdmann is more a film about what globalization, capitalism, does with private relationships much more than making a "political" film. It's more interesting to raise questions, because I don't feel in a position to "make a statement" with the film. Toni Erdmann comes from a completely different generation then his daughter, it's the post-war generation, they were very politically engaged. They raised their children with a lot of human worldviews, sent them out in the world believing in a world without borders.
For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also changed. There was a new kind of politics to it - something that was very aggressive and dangerous - and a presumption that it would reveal some kind of truth or evidence.
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
Everyone's first thought is "These women are going to take advantage of you" or "Someone's only going to date you because you're famous. " That stuff's not really an issue because that's super-easy to see through.