Milan Kundera Quotes

But I think 'Love, Actually' has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening scene, where Hugh Grant's character talks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow, is about friendship and connection, it's about who we really are as a species.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

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.

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

My favorite hobby is matchmaking. It's a lot easier to do it in movies then in real life because in real life, people don't do what I tell them to do.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.

People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow.

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.