"Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude."

“The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.”

Source : George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.”

“When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.”

“There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only there the sadness was older and more Western. All that movement to so little purpose. A million strangers searching for a cure to the darkness behind their eyes in the void between someone else's legs.”

Source : Jon Courtenay Grimwood (2017). “End Of The World Blues”, p.92, Hachette UK

“A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.”

“It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move.”

“As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.”

Source : Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA

“When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.”