A Vivir Conversations

"Some days it feels like it all started yesterday in Liverpool. We were friends — that was the whole thing."

"I don't gather facts — I gather human feelings, thoughts, and words. History is hidden there, in the individual."

"I remember lying on the ground surrounded by blood, thinking it was the end. Fortunately, I was wrong."

"I'd make another film if someone came with the right conditions — but that someone isn't coming."

"The most dangerous lies are the ones that borrow the language of truth — the shock doctrine runs on confusion, and confusion is manufactured."

"Everywhere, across the whole planet, you feel a strange malaise of resentment and a vague need to rewrite the past — which is rather dangerous."

"Every typewriter tells a story before you've written a single word — they carry history in their keys. That's why I collect them."

"Philanthropy is never going to change everything. The system itself has to be transformed."

""At some point, loneliness feels heavy. Then you realize you are the only one to blame: detaching from people, not answering the calls...""

"Music and science both demand the same thing: a willingness to be completely wrong, and to start again from scratch."

"Every single day you live, you make some impact on the planet. And you get to choose what sort of difference you make."

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."

"A novel has to grab you on the first page. If you aren't hooked in the opening chapter, no one will reach the last."

"The great challenge of politics today is speaking to people who don't think like you. Understanding your opponent's best argument can teach you a great deal."

"AI is the first technology in history that can make decisions and create new ideas by itself. We have no idea what that means for humanity."

"They were like children playing in a room, not really knowing what they were doing. They didn't realize they were changing the world. They were creating art just because it amused them."

"It's never too late — not for you personally, not for the planet. But we have to start now, every single one of us."

"Humiliation is the gift that keeps on giving — every awful thing that happens to me is material I'm grateful for later."