"Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence."

“Compassion is a verb.”

“He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.”

“As the woodpecker taps in a spiral quest From the root to the top of the tree, Then flies to another tree, So have I bored into life to find what lay therein, And now it is time to die, And I will fly to another tree.”

“I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.”

“Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.”

“The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.”

Source : Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.”

“Give up as much as you're willing to receive back and give yourself, if that makes any sense. Whatever that is, don't expect more from a person than what you're willing to give, but give it knowing that you're giving it - it's been given, so don't expect anything else.”

Source : "IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE WITH AVA DUVERNAY AND EMAYATZY CORINEALDI". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.