What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.
If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
Back when I was 15 or 16, in Dallas there was a department store called Sanger-Harris. One holiday season, I got a job as a gift wrapper there. The others were all experts who did that job every year, and I was by far the youngest person, who was totally inexperienced. In those days, department stores around Christmastime were a total frenzy.
Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
As you have more resources in life, it's your obligation to deploy those for the benefit of others.
I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.
Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.
The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
