"In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty."

“God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but I charge you remember that He pays in the end.”

“So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.”

“There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.”

“You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.”

“Guys are just too fast and too big in the NFL.”

Source : "Josh Hopkins Talks Lebanon, the NFL Draft, and Phone Sex With Cougar Town Fans". Interview with Christian Chung, www.amc.com. April, 2011.

“I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at the Angel Island theatre space. We did the show, an adaptation of Grimm's Fairy Tales. It was hardcore Grimm - nothing was sanitized - and it was called 'The Mary-Arrchie Kid's Show.' It was well-received, and so I applied to do it through Urban Gateways in Chicago.”

“When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.”

“In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com