"The only thing that can break a piece of Valentine candy is another piece of Valentine candy."

“My culinary skills are terrible. I can't even make toast taste good. I do make scrambled eggs for myself sometimes but I wouldn't even inflict that on anyone else.”

“We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.”

“And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.”

“I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.”

Source : Gerald Stern (1981). “The red coal: poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

“I've done some collaborations which have ended up like Chinese whispers, but the most successful was with Tilda Swinton... Together we transcended our previous work and made something better together than we could have done apart.”

“Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.”

Source : "Tributes to French New Wave Master Jacques Rivette, Dead at 87" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. January 29, 2016.

“I love 'Gossip Girl.' I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I'm also addicted to Bravo and reality shows like 'Top Chef.'”

“Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.”