"I have to admit that I am not great at selecting music for CDs! I have a few personal favorites, and then I let my producer take it from there!"

“The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.”

“I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.”

“Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.”

Source : Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The Courage to be Happy”

“Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business”

“You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?”

“For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.”

“To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me. I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.”

“There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.”

Source : "Famed Cinematographer Roger Deakins Talks Coens, Storytelling, ‘Prisoners’". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. January 13, 2014.