"By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven."

“Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.”

“I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.”

“You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.”

“Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.”

“I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am generally interested in surfacing lesser-known histories. I like to investigate and illuminate these histories, combining them with my own unconventional storytelling style, which is generally a stream-of-consciousness voiceover involving a steady stream of personal reflections on pining over unavailable women.”

Source : "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jenni Olson – ‘The Royal Road’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. January 25, 2015.

“To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.”

Source : J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.”

“I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2008.