Emily Beecham Quotes

My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.

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.

I always had an interest in seeing people within their environments.

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

I've always gotten along with guys better.

I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.

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.

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

I'm just incredibly interested in people.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

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

I go down the street, people see me: 'Hey, I pity-' right on, man, that's a compliment to me.

I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.

'The Room' is relationships. The room is you and me and everyone in America. That's basically what 'The Room' is.

Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

It's harder to scream at someone you just chatted with at lunch. I mean, if you're a superb actor, you might be able to do that, but I couldn't do it.

In a non-supernatural universe, there's just character, and it's humanity and human beings and how they relate to each other.

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.

When I hear 'politics,' I hear 'relationships.'

Human interaction is not a simple thing.

I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.

I don't really get inspired by landscapes that much, it's all people.