[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews. We know very well-known fixed places like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, and Beltzec. Instead, war can live in a couple having a spat, when we say, "That was a real war." We very rarely have the Holocaust live in the terms of today. And I think that's a problem, because it becomes ancient history.

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.