What I read told me that the Mankindman was a strange creature which stand on to legs. It seems to be a man from both sides

It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.

And the pomegranates, /like memories, are bittersweet/as we huddle together, /remembering just how good/life used to be

Happiness comes from loving and giving

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.

Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another.

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.