"An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure."

“I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.”

“Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.”

“If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 5, 2008.

“My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.”

“Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.”

“On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.”

“It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point in writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner.”

Source : Bridget Jones's Diary "January" (1996)

“A team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose.”