Lana Wachowski Quotes

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

We're human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so, in a sense, we disappear into this larger world.

I love feelings that are universal, things that tie every single person on this earth together. I think we all battle between what we know is right and what we feel is right every single day, and as much as that can be difficult it's absolutely human.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

I think people are universal.

As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities.

We're all connected, related, part of one another's lives through the stories we tell ourselves and each other. For good and for bad.

We're all humans; we all go through phases.

I like character-driven stuff that shows humanity and something that can make people think.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

In every man there is something of all men.

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a sense of shared humanity above the cultural layers we place on ourselves [which don't] mean that much compared to the human experience.

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

We're all human and life is complicated.

The thing is, right now the films don't need to be overtly political to be about our times. We also need films that are just human, that are about people. People need that, too. It's like we need to reconnect to what it is to be human. Not just what our political situation is. That's not what I'm thinking about exclusively. Human content is needed again, as it was in the '70s. I think films were more human than they've been since then.

It is our stories [classic Disney films] that make us human - so Owen [Suskind] has become an expert in what connects us and makes us human. That got to me, the power of these stories, and the lessons these tales give us to create the connection between us.