"If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no little fish? The world's populations of little fish are being harvested to make catfood!? This nonsense has to stop. Feed a fish a cat a day!"

“Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (”

Source : Tananarive Due (2008). “Blood Colony: A Novel”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

“Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.”

“As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.”

Source : " A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

“The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.”

Source : "Ever the Warrior / Gay rights icon Harry Hay has no patience for assimilation" by Dan Levy, www.sfgate.com. June 23, 2000.

“I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.”

“What leader has no lessons to learn from his followers?”

“Maybe because we're women, we have a very high respect level for each other. And when you do have ownership, you're going to make it the best it can be. And I think that's a really - although subtle - very important point in - when you're doing anything creative.”

“I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.”