“The film is driven by coincidence and preconception, ... Each character, whether they be rich, poor, black, white, Mexican or Iraqi, suffers these preconceptions about the other as a manifestation of personal frustration. You see the characters' motivation and see that behind the belligerent cop is a man in pain, behind the frustrated housewife is a woman who feels let down. Racism is just one part of the much bigger puzzle that the film offers.”
Thandie Newton
“A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.”
Ernest Boyer
“FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person --a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.When Adam long ago in Cupid's awful court(For Cupid ruled ere Adam was invented) Sued for Eve's favor, says an ancient law report, He stood and pleaded unhabilimented."You sue _in forma pauperis_, I see," Eve cried;"Actions can't here be that way prosecuted." So all poor Adam's motions coldly were denied: He went away --as he had come --nonsuited. --G.J.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“When I was in high school, I dreamed of being a film-maker, but my family was so poor that they couldn't afford for me to go to college.”
John Woo
“Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.”
Thomas Jefferson
