Sam Weller Quotes

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

I think human nature is eternal and constant.

I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean, we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.

Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.

I've been inspired for a long time by Nicole Holofcener. I admire her greatly as an auteur, examining the human condition in a funny, growing, spirited, honestly dark and human way.

I like Halldor Laxness and Machado de Assis - people who try to understand the human condition by looking at intimate pictures of human life.

I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments ...

We can't solve any problem without first solving the problem of human nature

People see footballers as different beings, as if we're untouchable, as if nothing ever happens to us, but we're people. Of course we're privileged, but in the tangibles, we're the same.

Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.