"The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour."

“What is a screenplay? 120 pages of begging for money and attention.”

“THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check the progress of wealth in different countries, and stop it, or make it proceed very slowly, while the power of production remains comparatively undiminished, or at least would furnish the means of a great and abundant increase of produce and population.”

“Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.”

Source : Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

“I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.”

“Keep your eye on the prize and focus on your mission. Remember what you’re trying to do, what your value is, why it’s important, and at the same time, change course and direction. If the market’s telling you different things how are you going to adjust to that?”

“A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.”

Source : G. Wilson Knight (2014). “Shakespearian Production”, p.69, Routledge

“For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.”

Source : "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Književna reč, Beograd, (p. 129), 1999.

“I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan”