Barbara Kopple Quotes

I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.

I've studied human psychology my whole life.

I really do love psychology and philosophy but I'm no professional at these things. Because I love seeing the true side of humanity, as I've continued that, I have ultimately lent towards philosophy and psychology but it is not something in which I try to study.

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

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

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

In community work, you reach some people, but in writing, I can reach many more people, not only in exploring issues of domestic violence, but also by showing the importance of strong women in communities.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

We can't solve any problem without first solving the problem of human nature

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

The mindfulness revolution is not quite as dramatic as the moon shot or the civil rights movement, but I believe, in the long run, it can have just as great an impact.

I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.

I don't wanna ever make jingles. I wanna do something that changes people's opinions and provokes thought and makes them think about how they should live their life and how they can better themselves and empower themselves.

Celebrities who lend their names to causes to raise lot of money for important issues should be admired and not marginalized and made fun of.

The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act.