Quotes About Empathy

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

I don't think I ever felt an outsider when I had a stutter.

It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

I love Harry Styles just as much as anyone, and I would never do anything that would hurt his feelings.

If I ever score against Spurs, I won't celebrate. Even if it's the best goal in the world, I'll keep it subdued. It's a respect thing. The fans were brilliant towards me; I'll be playing against my friends and I can't forget that.

Humility, we say, is very important because we feel humility means the ability to listen, the ability to respect another's opinion and to find that everybody around you in some subject knows more.

When you're shooting with long lenses, even if you're shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject.

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

Some people make movies for money or glory and will take any subject people offer them. But I cannot do that. I need to feel the story and make it mine.

I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It's one of the great things about what I do.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.

Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.

I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.

Watching something is a personal experience, and I think watching something that is dealing with a heavy subject matter, it's a personal thing.

The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

I try to make all the action in my movies subjective: to give a sense of what it would feel like to actually be a part of it.

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.