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“If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren't ready to make a film.”
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“Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.”
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“I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly.”
Source : Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7. 
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“I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.”
Source : Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage
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“I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.”
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“When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.”
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“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.”
Source : Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.426, Simon and Schuster
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“Play is the work of childhood.”
