Roberto Aguire Quotes

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

As a philanthropist, I give away a lot of money every year. Yet I thought there was a higher leverage to come in and create movies and TV shows that were actually able to do some good in the world.

I think you have a responsibility as an artist to continually reach a hand out and try and inspire people.

My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called 'Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.'

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.

All I owe the world is my art.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.

Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.

A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.

I have always believed that cinema is one of the greatest instruments of positive social change. Stories can be light, engaging and poignant, but they need to say something.

Real power is having the ability and the resources to tell an amazing story or to say 'yes' to a filmmaker and change not only the filmmaker's life but the world.

People like me in the entertainment industry can contribute to social change through our work.

Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.

I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.

It's my job as an artist and as an actor to use this platform to make people learn and grow, to change their perspectives on how things are in whatever way I can.