"I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action."

“My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.”

Source : "The Color of Money". Live discuss with Michelle Singletary, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

“When America has been discovered in America it will be discovered in Europe. They are looking for America now.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1918). “The Air-line to Liberty: A Prospectus for All Nations”

“Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.”

“The journey has been incredible from its beginning.”

“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'”

“A republic may be called the climate of civilization.”

“Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.”

“If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.”

Source : "Why The West Is Best" by Jamie Glazov, www.frontpagemag.com. December 15, 2011.