"A lot of it is just waking up and putting one foot in front of the other and going where I just go, a natural progression. The other thing is I do have a lot of ideas. TV seems to be where it happens faster, quicker. You are trying to get a movie off the ground, and it's very difficult. One movie takes two years to make"

“We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.”

“We read the future by the past.”

Source : Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.164, University of Virginia Press

“Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.”

Source : "V For Vendetta - Joel Silver/James McTeigue interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

“Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.”

“If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, wed be terrified.”

Source : "The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is". Interview with Errol Morris, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 23, 2010.

“I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.”

“Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation...”

“Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.”