I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.