For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.
This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.
I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
I love Decatur. It is diverse, politically progressive, family oriented and I can walk everywhere.
People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.
It is very creditable when a woman gets into politics. She does this at the expense of responsibilities toward her home and family and should be lauded for this.
Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.
In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.
In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
