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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Salman Rushdie