Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.