33 Quotes by Justin Torres

It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susan's homecoming with the world.

It was a bittersweet time. I was struck by the words of one prayer, Hail Holy Queen, which talks about 'mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.' There was plenty of that. We're thrilled about the baby, but it was a very difficult day.

I'm not sure he's going to win it. Last year, Jamie Foxx won for 'Ray,' and I don't think they're going to do that again, another bio picture.

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.

As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is what it is - you know, your father's violent but he loves you and that's just the way it is - later on you realize that this is like different, shameful, blah blah blah.

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.