People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of actors who share a certain bloodlust.
When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.
It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
In 2017, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff who was ordered by a federal court to stop racially profiling and was convicted of criminal contempt when he refused. Arpaio, by targeting Latinx people, was violating both the U.S. Constitution and our civil rights.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
Anyone who truly understands what apartheid was cannot possibly look around Israel today and honestly claim there is any kind of parity.
When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.
