Lilly Wachowski Quotes

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

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.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

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

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 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.

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.

Like all art, nonfiction film should invite, seduce, or force us to confront the most difficult, frightening or mysterious aspects of what it means to be human.

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.

I feel like humor and tragedy are all on the same coin, and it's all a part of the same process as humans as we assimilate reality.

In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul.

August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do is you sit with our pathology, you invest in our humanity. We're not walking around like walking symbols like we mean something larger. We're just moving throughout our lives and that's the power of the piece. That's revolutionary.

Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

The true artform is being a human being.

The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human being, and organizations that would undermine that, and undermine the more natural parts of being a person

Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults.

I know that sounds cliché, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and a lot of the things I write about are pretty universal things.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?

Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.

In every man there is something of all men.

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.