"I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told."

“Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.”

“I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.”

“[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.”

Source : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.86

“She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.”

“Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?” asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the spirits inside all the stars are singing. I’m a star spirit. I sing too. The music of the spheres is what makes space so peaceful.”

“The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.”

“If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, (...) you nail it down (...). So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".”

Source : Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, pp. 76-77, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.

“Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.”

Source : "Sophie Thompson: 'I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I'd find the funny bits'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.