"When you pick up a script you want to do you generally have a theme you're trying to work with, and then it expands from that."

“If we live in the here and now, each moment is a surprise, every instant a new wonder. But it often fails to work this way. Onto the present we superimpose our expectations and opinions, based on the past or future. We meet someone, and we already anticipate what he/she will be like and what they will say.”

Source : Piero Ferrucci (2007). “The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life--Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.105, Penguin

“As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my lyrical content and defining who I am as an artist.”

“The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.”

Source : "'Growing Pains' Cast Reunion". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 7, 2006.

“Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.”

“The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.”

Source : Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1928). “Reconciliation: a plain statement of the gracious provision Jehovah has made to bring all men into full harmony with Himself that the obedient ones may have everlasting life on earth in contentment and complete happiness”

“It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.”

“Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.”

“I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.”

Source : "Stop Making Sense". Documentary, Music, 1984.