"Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm."

“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”

“The worst part is the difficult moments when suddenly you are away from your friends and your family, and you can't be close to them because you are working. And sometimes there are birthdays or Mother's Days or some problems at home when you can't be there. So, it becomes a difficult thing.”

Source : Source: www.billboard.com

“Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.”

“Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.”

Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 18, 1985.

“Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.”

“every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.7470, Delphi Classics

“The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains.”

“The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.”

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