Michael Harrington

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.