Sissy Spacek Quotes

Our species likes being social.

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You don't gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people - this is the basis for forming larger communities.

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

I'm really into the human interest thing. I really like regular people.

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

I find humans tremendously interesting.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded in this network; it affects us profoundly and we may be unaware of its existence, of its effect on us.

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

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

Man's society is an ecology that forces adaptation to it.

The associations inside the group become more important than those outside.

I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life.