Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can serve as a go-between with my experience, I will support the government's call for dialogue with the rebel forces who also have their problems, who also have their fears. I think all us Latin Americans have to help.
This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of war.
Families At War' is a show we are very proud of. It was a great show.
I picked up the phone and called Herbert Hainer, the CEO of Adidas, and said, 'Well, it's Peace Day coming up. I think it's about time after 60 years to end this feud. How about doing something together?'
And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.
There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.
Every fight has its rough spots, and I'm always looking for improve every facet.
The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".
Walking away from a problem is never a solution. Never. Solve the problem.
It's not that I don't enjoy fighting. I don't enjoy the circumstances around fighting.
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.
I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.
Direct talks is the only possible way to build trust and to resolve the conditions for a peace perspective between Palestinians and Israelis.
Thats why my biggest problems were with LL and Run.
Every fight is a new story, a new training camp.
Every family argues and goes through things.
We proved that the aggressors do not necessarily emerge as the victors, but we learned that the victors do not necessarily win peace.
I've never pulled out of a fight.
To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.
Fighting lives and dies; you can't fight forever.
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.
