Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.
My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.
Sometimes people's behavior is seemingly unexplainable.
You forget, living outside of a country, that the actions of the government are not the actions of the people.
I still ponder what gets in people's minds and souls, why they do the things they do.
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
I love to think about and therefore talk about why people do what they do. That's kind of why I like being an actor.
We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.
I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.
You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.
You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.
