"Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero."

“I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.”

“How hard it must be to keep fighting for a dream when that dream is probably a mirage.”

Source : Amy Hill Hearth (2012). “Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

“We have this day to be alive. We better lay down and give up, or stand up and really make some worthwhile memories for ourselves. 'Cause we're not going to be alive forever”

“I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”

“I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.”

“Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.”

Source : Betty Edwards (1999). “The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, Tarcher

“The way Jacques Brel writes a story, getting into the character, bringing out all his faults and qualities in the same song.... Not that I could ever write in such an epic way, but it really is a different way to go about writing lyrics...and I find that quite inspiring.”

“If there is God, I thought...Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh..." "Tatiasha...isn't it nice to know there is a God?”