"The quality of Korean actors is actually quite high. Their passion is overwhelming but not many platforms are available to cater to their creative needs. They're thirsty for something new and I think that's where I connect with them. They have vision. In certain sense many Korean actors have better vision than directors."

“...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.”

“I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.”

“There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.”

“There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.”

“Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So it's very important tonight that I express that everybody who works at our comedy show, all of us are terribly sad for the families and people of France and anybody in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke. It's not the way it's supposed to be.”

“Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.”

“Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.”

Source : "Galina Vishnevskaya obituary" by Tully Potter, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

“A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.111, Random House