"Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated."

“The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.”

“I'm just this kid from Toronto who got his start.”

“I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.”

“I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.”

“The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.”

“Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?”

“The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.”

Source : Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“Katie Lane is a wonderful new voice in Western romance fiction.”