The more opinions you have, the less you see.
The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.
It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.
Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.
So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.
Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
