Aparna Sen Quotes

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It's a more articulated film, and because of that, I'm most proud of it.

I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.

I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people.

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.

What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don't have that, it's not worth doing, frankly.

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there are so many other things than just funny.