"And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own."

“I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.”

“I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.”

Source : "Babylon calling". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

“I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.”

Source : "Brett Ratner Exclusive Interview KITES: THE REMIX – Plus He Talks TOWER HEIST, CHAOS, RUSH HOUR 4, 3D, More". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. May 12, 2010.

“As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.”

Source : Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.203, Shambhala Publications

“What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.”

Source : Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

“Flying or falling, it's up to us.”

“I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.”