"The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only distract and alienate certain audiences, it would limit who has access to the film, and that's something I think a lot about with this story."

“Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.”

“When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a great gift. But you also know this, for your work, for your passion, every day is a rededication. Painters, dancers, actors, writers, filmmakers. It's the same for all of you, all of us. Every step is a first step. Every brush stroke is a test. Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. So, let the learning continue.”

Source : "5 Great Bits of Advice From Martin Scorsese's NYU Commencement Speech" by Gwynne Watkins, www.yahoo.com. September 16, 2014.

“Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.”

“For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.”

“Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold.”

Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.69, Golgotha Press

“In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?”

“Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.”