"Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that."

“Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.”

“You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.”

“Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.”

“The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.”

“I love beautiful women. I love to show their personality, their sexuality. There's a fashion side to my erotic pictures: I love beautiful shoes and jewellery. But the erotic work I do is too daring and provocative for a fashion magazine. It's more fun, and if you have the right girl who likes it, more exciting, too. It's fashion photography, but with fewer clothes.”

Source : "Photographer Ellen von Unwerth's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2009.

“I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.”

Source : "William Mapother Exclusive Interview ANOTHER EARTH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 19, 2011.

“We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up.' We are professionals, we can do that without anybody telling us. I'm OK with it, but we need to do it on our own.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com

“The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.”

Source : "James Spader on His Eccentric Lincoln Character". Interview with Bilge Ebiri, www.vulture.com. November 21, 2012.