Yael Stone Quotes

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.

As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.

I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.

You have people there from all walks of life: people who made mistakes and have to deal with the consequences, mothers and fathers. You wouldn't expect them to be behind bars.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.

Woman is also the element of conflict.

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

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

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

The world is a penal institution.

I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments ...

Politics begins when you have two people in a room or when you have one person looking in a mirror.

There is a kind of theme that runs through the modern world that human relationships should be looked at in terms of power relationships, in terms of the manipulation of power. That is one of the really wicked ways of looking at the world. It strips people of their humanness.