"Realistically there is no limit to the possibilities. How does an artist make decisions?"

“You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.”

“We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?”

“Life is about growing, learning, and becoming. You can not grow, learn, or become if you can not embrace the changes in your life.”

“We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.”

“Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.”

Source : "Oscars Q&A: Thomas Langmann On The Creative Gamble Of Making 'The Artist'". Interview with Scott Timberg, deadline.com. February 4, 2012.

“It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.”

Source : Michael Drayton (1753). “The Works of Michael Drayton, Esq”, p.265

“If you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns form before it happens.”

Source : Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”