"I love anything that has to do with expanding and becoming more than you can actually become. Going further than you did before."

“I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.”

“There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”

“Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about...  I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional cell. The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macro-molecules. How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me. The possibility of the existence of a Creator, of God, represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem.”

“The future is always a dystopia in movies.”

Source : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

“Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.”

“Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.”

“Here in Raine, I can walk with the sunlight on my face. I can speak to anyone who speaks to me. I can learn my daughter's language. I can be called the name I was given when I was born. Here I am no longer my own secret. Will you let me stay?”

“When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.”