Virginia Woolf Quotes

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

I like people.

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

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

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

I like people-people rather than movie people.

The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.

When people do come face to face with each other as human beings, they begin to understand each other better.

I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.

There is enormous value in face to face interaction.

I just like interacting with people.

It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.

It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people's perception of each other. And that's how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world.

As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

The only thing people are interested in is people.

The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time.

We want, or wanted, to believe that without love we would disappear, that love, somehow, would save us that, yeah, if we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life. The Terror is, we know now, that even without love, life goes on... we just go on there is no mercy killing.

All real living is meeting.

some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic. there is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans.