In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.
In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.
So much of our future lies in preserving our past.
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
The past is but the past of a beginning.
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.
For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.
I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.
You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.