"You never see a French person eating alone."

“Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.”

“We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.”

“Loyalty is from above, betrayal is from below.”

“I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.”

“The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.”

“Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.”

“Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North.”

Source : James Oliver Curwood (2015). “The Valley of Silent Men”, p.2, Booklassic

“During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.”