

“Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ...
Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from — hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated.”
― Wyrd Sisters
Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from — hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated.”
― Wyrd Sisters

“Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just”
― In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
― In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

“the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.”
― All Things Considered
― All Things Considered

“I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.”
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“They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself.”
― Mockingjay
― Mockingjay

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