Quotes About Understanding

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.

I guess I am politically very naive.

Jake Corman, he and I disagree on issues politically, but Jake Corman is not a bad guy.

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

I was very fortunate to grow up in France with amazing parents who allowed me to understand the importance of activism. My dad was a politician but he was also an activist, and my mom was a beautiful feminist who took care of others.

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

The best politics is no politics.

I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

You can't afford for there to be gaps in your pool of knowledge when it comes to a character; otherwise, what ends up onscreen is generalized and unspecific.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

I am a poor hater.

If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?