"I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry."

“I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.”

Source : Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

“Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.”

Source : Interview with Rewa Zeinati, www.sukoonmag.com. December 17, 2015.

“I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?”

“Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.”

“I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.”

Source : "Gabriel Basso Makes It Look Easy". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 10, 2011.

“From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?”

“I get so excited about reading a new script.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.”