The idea is more important than the object.

森林是我们星球的肺；我们必须给予它们应有的尊重。

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

I don't believe in playing villains or heroes. I believe in playing people.

The challenge is not to represent Africa, but to present African complexities.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

I think that we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves.