"Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!"

“I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.”

“Take eloquence and wring its neck.”

Source : Paul Verlaine (1981). “Paul Verlaine, his absinthe-tinted song”, Ams Pr Inc

“It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.”

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

“We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.”

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

“If we educate ourselves, then the desire and need to have art as a part of our lives will happen organically. I would invite anyone to look at cultures where art is squashed. Do you want to live in North Korea? We have a president who doesn't read at all. There's a lot to worry about. I just wish, as a collective, we were much smarter.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

“I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.”

“It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.”

Source : Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

“I won't sing to you like Chris and Ne-Yo, but I'm fresher than a stick of deo.”