"I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra."

“...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.”

Source : Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

“I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.”

“You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.”

Source : "William Mapother Exclusive Interview ANOTHER EARTH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 19, 2011.

“While I'd like to make movies that are uplifting, there's always that part of you that goes, 'I want to play the evil guy because it's not me.' So anything that is not me is a challenge, and if I rise to the challenge, then I've kind of proved myself.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I think if you have to make sandwiches to get a ring - you should do good things for your man, but I don't think I would do that.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com

“I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You never see the people again, but the lingering sense of their presence in the world is like the glow of an unseen city at night--makes you feel the teemingness of it all.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

“Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.”