"If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden."

“The really cool thing is all about being able to take your movie around and show it. It puts you in direct contact with people who are like-minded and interested in similar things. I think the film festival circuit has certainly helped to foster the community.”

“I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.”

“That's an L, as in love, and I love you more than I'll ever be able to tell you with words. I want to tell you in other ways. In the way I kiss you. In the way I touch you. In the way I hold you. Won't you let me say it my way, just once? - Swift to Amy”

Source : Catherine Anderson (2009). “Comanche Heart”, p.124, Penguin

“Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed”

“Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.”

“The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.”

“Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.”

“For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the cost in money, in lives, and in suffering was always significant. Only in the past century have large numbers of people begun to question the basic assumption of civilized societies that war is inevitable and often useful.”