Human nature fascinates me.
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
It would be completely laughable if I claimed I was always motivated by the pure craft of acting and that recognition doesn't play a part. Of course it does - that's human nature.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
We can't legislate human nature.
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.
Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.