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People that know how to look into the Abyss and laugh. Not arrogantly, but with the pleasure of the adventure that lies ahead. people that wanna have fun, wanna have conflict, search for love in all levels, wanna argue, wanna find the right questions, don't wanna hear the same old answers..... People that are afraid but keep on walking..." It was revealed to me that the actor's soul, like that of any artist if it is free and happy, knows everything there is to know about the human being with all his 'subconscious' depths. He only goes astray when the intellect interferes and violates the freedom that is inborn in the creative soul" Michael ChekhovThe further away one is from one's country, the more one thinks of it and loves it. When I am in Greece I see the pettiness, the intrigues, the idiocies, the inadequacies of the leaders and the misery of the people. But from afar one cannot distinguish the ugliness so clearly, and one has more freedom to create an image of the country worthy of true love. That's why I work better and love Greece more when I am abroad. Far away from her I am better able to grasp her essence and her mission in the world, and thus my own humble mission. Something special happens to Greeks who live abroad. They become better. They take pride in their race, they feel that being Greeks they have the responsibility to be worthy of their ancestors. Their conviction that they are descended from Plato and Pericles may perhaps be utopian, it may be an act of autosuggestion going back thousands of years. But once this autosuggestion becomes faith it exercises a fertile influence on the Modern Greek soul. It was thanks to this utopia that the Greeks survived. After so many centuries of invasion, slaughter and famine they should have disappeared. But the utopia, which has become faith, does not let them die. Greece still survives, I think it still survives through a succession of miracles.N. Kazantzakis