"The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man."

“Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.”

Source : "Director Marshall on Pirates 4" by Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. December 14, 2010.

“The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.”

“As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.”

Source : "Angels and demons" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.

“So much technology, so little talent.”

Source : Vernor Vinge (2011). “Rainbow's End”, p.52, Pan Macmillan

“Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.”

Source : "My Interview With Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou... From the Top of the Acropolis". Interview with Steven Hill, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2011.

“It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.”

“The chance to go to the postseason, it's hard to pass up.”

“As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.”