Quotes About Conflict

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I intend to make Georgia howl.

In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

I have a very intense marriage.

Rihanna told me her parents used to argue so intensely, she used to get these headaches, these migraines that were almost not even treatable with medicine. The moment her parents separated, her migraines went away.

I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

In life, we mostly manage to walk around interacting with each other fairly politely. But as soon as we get into our cars, we morph into something out of 'Mad Max'.

But in all cases when you have problems in your interactions with your boss, there's one more question you have to ask yourself: To what extent is your boss at fault, and to what extent are you a neophyte about supervisor-subordinate relationships?

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

I don't have tiffs with people. I only mind my business, but whatever interferes my freedom of expression, I have always voiced.

Now, I was one of those kids who grew up privy to both his parents' secrets, who acted as the intermediary between them and eased their estrangements: that was my function in the household.

I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

I like playing characters with internal problems.

At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed.

Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.

I have always connected to stories with characters that don't fit in and have a constant internal battle between their better nature and the darkness within.

It's bad when there are internal problems at the club - when people have doubts about you internally.