I think part of the disappointing failure of the political process in America today is that it's asking us to forget countries' historic connections to other countries, or to the laws that have been made. They're willfully asking people to forget their country's history, and focus only on the present. It's bizarre.
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Cate BlanchettOnscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.
Cate BlanchettIt seems like people increasingly just can't be by themselves because they're so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that actually exists for other people. Until someone clicks onto your Facebook page, it doesn't mean anything.
Cate BlanchettAny industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.
Cate BlanchettYou don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other shade of meaning. Whenever you view something, and this is why great works of art survive decades and centuries, is because there's a door within the work that allows the audience to walk through and complete the meaning of the work. An audience isn't passive, nor are they unintelligent.
Cate Blanchett