"I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning."

“I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.”

“I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and I've had moments in my life where being female is considered to be a tremendous advantage - emotionally, career-wise. Personally, I have nothing to prove. But I'm tremendously curious about human nature. Female life is so incredibly underexplored in cinema, so these stories feel very exotic.”

“What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.”

“This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it”

“Sometimes on the way to your dream, you get lost and find a better one.”

Source : Lisa Hammond (2007). “Permission to Dream: Stepping Stones to Create a Life of Passion and Purpose”, p.30, Conari Press

“I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by God through Moses and approved by Christ through His Apostles.”

Source : David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, William Harper, Thornton Stringfellow, James Henry Hammond (1860). “Cotton is king”, p.636

“Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.”

“The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.”

Source : Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.