"I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it."

“I always like to make sense of things that, in theory, would not make any sense together. It's true that the core of Calvin Klein has been . . . I don't want to say conservative, but real clothes that are worn by everybody.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.”

“The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.”

“We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.”

Source : James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.260, The Minerva Group, Inc.

“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”

“Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.”

Source : "Jonathan Demme On Future Projects ‘Old Fires,’ ‘Zeitoun’ And ‘This House We Live In’" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. December 29, 2012.

“Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.”

“I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.”