"He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success."

“Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.”

“You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.”

“If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?”

“And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.25, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

“It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.”

Source : Song: Circle Of Life 2

“When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.”

“I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore”

“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.”