"I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest."

“I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.”

“I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.”

“Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.”

“I had a 15th club in my bag.”

Source : "Crenshaw a Master Again / '84 winner, now 43, holds off Love for win" by Scott Ostler, www.sfgate.com. April 10, 1995.

“I grew up watching a lot of Egyptian movies. My parents had this huge VHS collection of every Egyptian movie you can possibly imagine, and Egypt was kind of the Hollywood of the Middle East back in the '40s, '50s, and '60s. That was my first education in film.”

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“Paper is always strongest at the perforations.”

“For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty was to escape and that I needed to get back to my family and to my children no matter what. And that I could not accept to just see them as an authority, that I had to always keep in mind that I had to rebel and to keep my distance and to protect my soul because the core of the problem is dignity.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com