Quotes About World

The Cannes Film Festival is the biggest, most prestigious film festival in the world. This is where filmmakers are discovered, where futures are made, and the most important films premiered.

I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.

'The Giver' by Lois Lowry - I had to read this in school, and I fell in love with it. It was my favorite book as a child, and I read and reread it. I would pretend I lived in that world and that Asher was my best friend.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes - it's called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method of engaging with the actual world, just as pretending to know what a character might eat does not a novel make - much less make that make-believe real.

The world's poor have discovered that the E.U. (that's the country we live in, no point pretending there's anywhere called Britain any more) has absolutely no clue how to stop determined immigrants.

The global economy is in pretty good shape.

To be in one band that changed the world musically is pretty good, but to be in two bands that changed the world musically, that's amazing.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

I love that although the world is a dangerous place, I still find it to be beautiful.

When I was auditioning, I didn't know it was 'Daredevil.' Everything was secret. They're secret agents. They wouldn't give you any clues. I was a big fan of the show, and I think it helped me, once I got the part, to really understand the world that they live in. It helped me during shooting.

The Miu Miu world is a very daring, fun and curious one that encourages and nurtures artists to develop who they are and what they do.

It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.

Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.

I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions.

I want the world's data accessible.

I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?

As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.

I have a son and two daughters, and I care equally about all three of them, and I want the world to be a better place for all of them.

The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.