Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence--the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crime...s that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film--you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two ...rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ours...elves infinite possibilities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If kangaroos had no tails, they would topple over seems to me to mean something like this: in any possible state of affairs in whi...ch kangaroos have no tails, and which resembles our actual state of affairs as much as kangaroos having no tails permits it to, the kangaroos topple over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our role is to support anything positive in black life and destroy anything negative that touches it. You have no other reason for... being. I don't understand art for art's sake. Art is the guts of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We feel properly embarrassed when we are caught doing something that makes us look inept, knuckleheaded, or inappropriate. Maybe t...he difference is this: we feel embarrassed because we look bad, and we feel shame because we think we are bad. When we are embarrassed, we feel socially foolish. When we are shamed, we feel morally unworthy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A p...erson feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devot...ion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Henry B. Adams was the first in an infinite series to discover and admit to himself that he really did not care whether truth was,... or was not, true. He did not even care that it should be proved true, unless the process were new and amusing. He was a Darwinian for fun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »