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I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words. ”
I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists. It's a trait of human nature that I'm particularly in touch with. So I tend to project it onto my characters. ”
We're all quite vulnerable human beings really. ”
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done. ”
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people. ”
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative. ”
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. ”
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were. ”
It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can. ”
In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing. ”