In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.
The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.
If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.
The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.
Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.
Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.
I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.
A lot we have in our head, But things of heart are not yet dead, They have done none, but just fled, Out of us, Forgotten, just been bled..
Sometimes, we can be our worst enemy. That our mind is capable of twisting and turning things, and taking us to really dark places.
I read this on the gates to a village cemetery: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you’re going to be. — It puts things in perspective, doesn’t it?
All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen.
Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.
I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid for, but they're not made for order. I've never really done real commercial work.
I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.
