Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.
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Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.
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Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
