Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.
When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.
The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.
Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.
What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!
Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. . . . It means standing up for people who have been kept down.
Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.
I love meeting people, and I know it's so difficult for people to come up to me and introduce themselves, so when they do, I'll grab them and hug them. It makes their day, you know? I love that, and I get positive energy from that.
It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.