Takashi Miike Quotes

There's really not that much difference between you and I. And my name really doesn't matter. Hopefully, my heart and my spirit matters to you. Hopefully.

If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

We're all human at the end of the day. That's why I look at every person I encounter the same way.

Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It's recognizing that the same humanity - the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security - exists in each of us, even if it's expressed uniquely.

We're all people at the end of the day.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

Some things take so long But how do I explain When not too many people Can see we're all the same And because of all their tears Your eyes can't hope to see The beauty that surrounds them Now, isn't it a pity

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

I recognize every member of the human family as a brother; and if it was done by human beings, it was done by my brethren.

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me...

The things that divide us in politics are infinitesimal compared with the dignity of our common humanity.