True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outs….
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations..
'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using ….
Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors....
When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the ….
Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds: errors t….
I don't know whether the movement crashed as a result of the overwhelming character of the institutions we set out to change. I think repression had ….
Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything..
I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in charac….
I think it's a lot more interesting to watch a character go through a transition in a movie. You love her and then you almost want to not like her be….
To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god..
Snowden is almost preternaturally prepossessing and self-possessed. I think of a novelist whose dream character just walks into his or her head. It m….
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we ar….
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child..
When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters a….
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friend….
When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I wa….
I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play..
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them..
Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to comm….
I respect very much my public and also the music I perform..