Quotes About Understanding

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

It's hard to argue with someone that won't argue with you.

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

In the 10 years I've been with my wife we've probably argued twice.

I will listen to any argument put to me.

There is no argument that I won't take seriously.

The way that I deal with actors as a director is I just talk to them forever before we even arrive on set.

I'm not arrogant but I'm confident enough to know what I can do and what I can't do. And I'm fine with what I can't.

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.

Once you appreciate an art form, you're open to everything.

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

I don't really know about the art world.

If there's a group of articles written about me, I can usually tell the difference if someone's writing an article and they know me from someone who doesn't know me. They're usually very different.

I'm not very articulate.

I'm not the most articulate person.

It's hard for me to articulate myself.

I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really got involved. It was just somehow - and I thought that the artistry was all in the theater.

I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that's ok.

On the morrow of my wedding we shall be parted for a long time; but, Daniel, you are of stuff to understand me. Friendship can subsist in the absence of the friend.

Ce matin j'ignorais ce qu'était l'argent, vous me l'avez appris, ce n'est qu'un moyen, voilà tout.

This burst of independence dazzles me. I am like a blind man who has just recovered his sight. Now I begin to understand the vast interval which separates a Carmelite sister from a girl in society. Of ourselves we could never have conceived it.

Ba?kalar?n?n mutlulu?u art?k mutlu olamayacak olanlar?n tesellisidir.

Das Glück hat keine Geschichte, und die Erzähler aller Länder haben das so gut begriffen, dass der Satz "Sie wurden glücklich" alle Liebesabenteuer schließt.

Existe esa clase de goces que solamente pueden saborearse entre dos, de poeta a poeta, de corazón a corazón.