"When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency."

“It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion.”

“I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.”

“I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.”

“With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

“In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.”

“Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.”

“I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.”

Source : "Dianne Wiest at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival". Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

“I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.”