"If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much."

-- Tom Krause

“The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.”
“In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.”
“Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino...Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup.”
“I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.”

Source : "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.
“Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.”
“To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.”
“books are like confort food without the calories”
“Perhaps you've only grown up when you can bear not being understood.”

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