If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.
The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.
Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.
I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.
It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war machines than the child soldierMan has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of humanity's own future: its children.
Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.
Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?
The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?
It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal - has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.
Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.
As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.