[Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet.
At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.
The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of fear. My weapons are peaceful, for it is only by peace that peace can be attained. The song of freedom must prevail.
Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.
The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever. The people- beaten down today, yet rising tomorrow; losing the road one minute but finding it the next; their eyes always fixed on a star of true brotherhood, equality and dignity- the people are the real guardians of our hopes and dreams.
Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level. . . requires us to do something uncomfortable.
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.
I was talking to my mom one time, like, "Gosh, I'm 30. " And she's like, "In your thirties you're even stronger than in your twenties. " I didn't believe her, but I have played better in my thirties.
The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.