Quotes About Tragedy

Trayvon Martin did not need to die.

All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.

You go see a great production of 'Romeo and Juliet,' where those kids are full of life and love, you hope and forget.

Romeo and Juliet' is two love addicts acting out, and look how that ended.

In film, you can have sad endings.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

An attack on the scale of Sept. 11 would rock the markets and the economy.

'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Manon,' 'Giselle' - they are not stupid stories. They have fantastic characters. They have a big package of emotion.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.

During my time in Pakistan, I was asked to lead an expedition to Azad Kashmir following a devastating earthquake in 2005 that claimed the lives of 80,000 people.

What did the paparazzi do to Diana? They chased her and they killed her.

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.

Whether it was the 9/11 attacks, Paris shooting, or the attack on the Taj, people across the world mourn the collective loss.

I had to host a comedy show the day after 9/11, and I really knocked it out of the park. But that was before the Internet really took off, so the only people that know are the people who were there.

My father had Parkinson's, though he actually died following a bicycle accident.

I was in diapers when my parents left me with the babysitter to participate in an armored car robbery. They never came home.

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

My daughter passed away in 2003.