"One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others."

“That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.”

“I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.”

Source : "Collecting Character". www.screenwritingtricks.com. March 27, 2009.

“I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.”

“We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.”

“I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!”

“By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.”

“I haven't seen - I haven't heard the arguments that would make that case. And I haven't seen a proposal yet that satisfies the objections. The problem is, you create a key like this, and it can't - it's hard to say that it's going to be hidden. And then it becomes used both by our government in multiple cases, but also it could get out as far as hackers are concerned or other countries.”

Source : "Congress Should Decide Encryption Issue, Sen. Angus King Says". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

“Life without Love is as a flower without fragrance.”