"On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father."

“Sometimes rules are there to save your life.”

“One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.”

“When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.”

Source : "Strange Bedfellows: Koch and London Critics Heap Praise on ‘King’s Speech’" by Melena Ryzik, carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com. December 21, 2010.

“To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.”

“To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.”

“I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.”

Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

“I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.”

“I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.”