M. H. Abrams Quotes

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

In a non-supernatural universe, there's just character, and it's humanity and human beings and how they relate to each other.

The worst of faces still is human.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

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.

For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.

I'm totally human.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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

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.

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

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

Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

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

Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited.

Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?