"I think we should know about candidates desires and views, but I think it would be a mistake to assume that they will become reality."

“Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.”

“G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.”

“Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.”

“I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.”

Source : "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.

“Cath couldn't stop thinking about Levi and his ten thousand smiles.”

“I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.”

“Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes the booby prize. . . . Man has asked for truth and the Church has given him miracles. He has asked for knowledge, and the Church has given him theology. He has asked for facts, and the Church has given him the Bible. This foolishness should stop. The Church has nothing to give man that has not been in cold storage for two thousand years. Anything would become stale in that time.”

“Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first made a fetish of authenticity, then served up a shamelessly Hollywood, and wholly fictional climax, then capped the whole thing off with a coda that was essentially a tribute to his movie's authenticity, complete with side-by-side photos of the actors and their near-identical real-life counterparts. Well done, sir!”

Source : "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 2012.