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If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film. ”
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it. ”
You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac. ”
A human being is a deciding being. ”
Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others. ”
The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is. ”
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. ”
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. ”
Most films have a relationship or lack of it. They are about human beings. ”
In the end, I do not think we will find the neat boundary between 'normal sadness' and 'clinical depression,' if only because mood is an innate human characteristic, like weight or the length of our hair. However, to reject the very notion of depression as an illness on account of these difficulties is throwing the baby out with the bath water. ”