Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

I'm constantly surprised by human nature and humanity. And I think that's why I love what I do: because I love to story-tell and bring new characters to life.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.

What character actors want to do is investigate new types of people and present them in all their idiosyncrasies, psychological complexities, and contradictory stupidities. That has been one of the great delights over our seven collaborations.

I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.

'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.