Lee Unkrich Quotes

The world is a penal institution.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Prison … for the detention of persons and not for flagellating them or undermining their health.

I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.

When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.

A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Are there no prisons?

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

I should still be in jail.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.