"Even a broken tree can bear fruit"

“Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.”

“When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.”

Source : James H. Austin (2011). “Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen”, p.12, MIT Press

“When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.”

“I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room. I used to shoot in a way that drew more attention to the camera and I've tried, in each film, to draw less and less attention to the camera. I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director.”

Source : "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 07, 2011.

“Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?”

“I do think, even though I've made these genre movies, there's what happens in the movie and then there's what the movie's about. And for me, what the movie's about is so much more interesting.”

“I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'”

“I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.”

Source : "'Amazing Spider-Man's' Andrew Garfield Admits He's 'Incredibly Awkward'" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 03, 2012.