“Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.”

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners’coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn’t scrub it out.

You’ve got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power.

Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language.

Become fluent in the language of letting go. Learn to give people up before they hurt you beyond repair.

It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.

What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.

I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.