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I don`t try to sympathise with my characters, I just try to empathise with them. To try to understand. If I sympathised with the characters I would make idealised, romantic characters out of them, which I don`t do. I don`t idealise them, I just do normal characters, not very sympathetic, but just the way they are. I think I do this in films that are made in the shape of a question, not in the shape of an answer. They just try to make a very open statement and it is down to anyone`s subjectivity to find his own answer to that.

- Isabelle Huppert

There are a lot of Americans I sympathise with very much, but not the Government right now, no. We just do not agree on politics, but that`s not being Anti-American. I am critical about a country with a system that allows so many losers. I think that is wrong.

- Lars von Trier

(31st over: World XI 110-7 (Flintoff 14, Pollock 3) - 146 to win) Just the one Pollock run from that over.) I too can sympathise with Matthew Cobb - something similar happened to me when playing cricket as a teenager, ... A gust of wind trapped the wasp under a lock of my slightly foppish hair which sent it into the normal wasp rage. I`ve had a short back and sides ever since...

- Peter Smith