Sally Rooney Quotes

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines.

Every intellectual attitude is latently political.

There's nothing more political than fantasy.

We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed.

I don't think that swearing or gratuitous violence or sex make a show better. I just think there are natural rhythms to a human being in these situations, and what happens in these situations that cable allows is a natural reaction.

The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos.

One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.

Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.

What's more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That's what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it's something we should be uncomfortable about.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.

That's stupid." "That's people.

I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much.