There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.