I pay attention to politics and technology.
I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.
Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.
You can’t ignore politics, no matter how much you’d like to.
We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.
Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing – it’s either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and politics, which I’ve done on occasion.
Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
If we lived within our means – by being prudent – the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens… theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.
I want to appeal to all people to come together across the country and stand against this politics of corruption.
Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.
My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters.
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention.
Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.
So my degree was in political science, which I think was – the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
In politics, there are no friends.
The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.
No, I’m not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.
Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.
There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics.
A political party is about an ideology. And I don’t think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party.
