"I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters."

“I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.”

“My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.”

“Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego - the "I" that accompanies all my representations - as an absolute cosmic supersubject who, god-like, creates the entire universe.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

“Every time I have people over, I watch how long they look at every part of the painting, or pictures on my computer. I have a few close friends and people that are constants. Whether I like their opinion or not, I've been hearing it for a long time and I can use it as this constant. I mentally pay attention to how long they look at every image, which ones they pause on and what parts of it they look at.”

“It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.”

Source : Bohumil Hrabal (2012). “Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age”, p.40, New York Review of Books

“What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course.”

“One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.”

“Just because they say it's impossible doesn't mean you can't do it.”