"Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real."

“And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.”

“That changes your whole perception of the film, your perception of the ending...The challenge for us, especially with the Lord of the Rings is how do we deliver that one piece of information that makes you look at the films differently?”

Source : Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.123, NYU Press

“Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances a society.”

Source : Source: www.theaquarian.com

“If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.”

“Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists.”

“My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty.  We haven't a clue, we just ride.”

“Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.”