Quotes about family from interviews: parents, children, marriage and what family means alongside work and fame.
The most pure love you can have is the love you have for your family
A view of evolution from the gene's vantage point rather than the organism's: bodies are disposable survival machines that genes build and discard in order to keep copying themselves.
A quiet, almost documentary-toned film about how a single death inside a family breaks not just its grief but its very ability to keep living at its usual rhythm.
I had to grow up fast. That shaped who I am.
The memoir of a woman raised on an isolated survivalist Mormon family farm without school, official documents, or doctors — an account of how education becomes not just knowledge but a way of separating from one's own…
A young writer returns to his provincial hometown after finishing university — a film about how hard it is for someone full of ambition and contempt for other people's compromises to notice he's already begun repeating…
The E Street Band is my family. We grow together, suffer together, triumph together.
The autobiography of a man who spent 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid and emerged not as an avenger but as a president prepared to build reconciliation with his former enemies.
A quiet, exact portrait of how grown children drift from their parents even while still loving them.
47 years of marriage is work. It takes honesty, laughter and lots of love. I'm lucky to have found a man who understands that.
the opening volume of the Neapolitan novels, about the friendship of two girls from a poor district — a rivalry, envy, and mutual pull that turns out to outlast every man and circumstance in their lives.
A story about a family assembled not by blood but by a mutual choice to look after one another — and the price paid for that care outside the law.
The Godfather was about family, about how power destroys a man
a saga of the Buendía family in which magical realism isn't decoration but a way of showing how a country's and a family's history loop, repeating the same mistakes under new names.
A film about loving someone so much you decide to lie to them about the most important thing — and about the cultural gulf that makes that lie feel like care to some and betrayal to others.
The woman is sacred. We all come from a woman.
A science journalist assembles the research showing that the ability to recognize and regulate one's own and others' emotions shapes a person's success and well-being as much as—and sometimes more than—conventional…
A drama about dementia told not as an outside view of an ill man but as an attempt to make the viewer experience, from within, the unraveling of one's own grip on reality.
Cinema started with my father and the camera he gave me
a novel about what happens when a hunger for real feeling collides with a society that punishes honesty.
A portrait of a boxer whose rage inside the ring and outside it is the same force, one that destroys everyone around him, himself included.
My duty as a father and director is to show the path, not dictate it
A psychiatrist with forty years of trauma treatment behind him shows that overwhelming experience imprints itself not only on memory but on the body, which is why talk alone is often not enough to heal it.
A father interned with his young son in a concentration camp turns the surrounding horror into an invented game, protecting not the boy's body so much as his ability to remain a child.
My father taught me that music is serious business. It demands discipline, dedication, and love. He showed me the path, but I chose each step myself.
A teenager's diary, kept over two years in hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam annex — a record of how ordinary life, growing up, and hope kept going even inside mortal danger.
A film about a man carrying guilt so overwhelming that even other people's sincere forgiveness cannot lift it.
Motherhood is the most important role of my life. It taught me more about acting than anything else.
One person's coming of age told through three different actors in three different bodies — a film about how an outer mask of toughness and an inner vulnerability can share one life without ever quite reconciling.
Family is where you see yourself most clearly. My films are about families because they contain all of human history.
A comedy of manners that gradually curdles into a taut parable about how poverty and wealth learn to impersonate each other — and what that impersonation costs.
Motherhood is not just a bond of blood, it is a bond of souls. And this bond is stronger than any tragedy.
An animated film about a brother and sister left without parents in the war's final months — a study of what keeps two people holding onto each other when everything else collapses, made without a single frame that…
Being a mother and a leader is a challenge, but it teaches you priorities and empathy.
A dying father's race to set right what he can — his children, his conscience, the people caught in his shadow economy — before time runs out.
I gave basketball everything. Now it's time to give everything to my family.
Linklater shot this film over twelve real years with the same actor, so the growing up on screen isn't makeup or a montage trick — it's literally elapsed time.
Being a mother and an athlete is a double challenge, but it makes me stronger.
A melodrama about women rebuilding themselves and each other after loss — and about motherhood as a form that turns out to be larger than biology or gender.
Now my life is not just about me. I care for my children and want to be a good example.
A family drama that, through one domestic conflict, unfolds into a precise study of how truth, protective lies, and competing notions of duty coexist inside ordinary people.
Being a father gave me a new perspective. My children see in me more than just a champion.
When you watch illness steal a person, you understand that health and family are all that truly matters.
Home is where we show who we really are.
Milan is more than a club, it's a love affair.
When I gave birth to my daughter, I understood that winning means something different. Not faster, but with greater love and purpose.
Family is the most important thing in life. Everything else is just decoration.
My mother taught me that nothing in life is given - you have to work for it.
Love liberates, it does not bind. Love says: I love you — even if you're in China, I love you.