"I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not."

“We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.”

“When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.”

“The silence was always the greates temptation.”

“I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.”

“Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.”

Source : Interview magazine, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

“Friends, we have now won....I say to Aymaras, Quechuas, Chiquitaos, and Guaranis: for the first time we are going to be presidents. And I want to say to businesses, intellectual professionals, and artists: do not abandon us.”

“Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.”

Source : Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.509, SAGE

“I was always a self-conscious person.”