"When Brad [Pitt] responded [to Allied], suddenly what was impossible became possible, which was great. But along the way, whenever I told the story, it had an affect on people. At its core, this was an effective story."

“I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less white and Western, which it is still at the moment. There will be more female artists in the mix. I think we'll see art forms explored through different media - the Internet, television, books, even. We'll see art produced in forms and media that we haven't seen yet.”

“I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.”

“All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?”

“When I was 17, I was always hanging out with the older kids, and a lot of times, the kids that graduated would come back and play pranks. I was a huge, huge, huge prankster.”

Source : "'90210''s Tristan Wilds and 'Nikita''s Shane West talk teen angst on 'When I was 17'". www.mtv.com. May 06, 2011.

“And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.”

“I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.”

“I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.”

“The fact we get played on the radio now blows our minds.”

Source : "The Black Keys on new album, rabid fans and Lana Del Rey". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.co.uk. May 13, 2014.