"My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose."

“The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.”

“I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.”

“The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!”

“A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.”

Source : Holly Lisle (2001). “The Secret Texts”, p.50, Hachette UK

“God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting...”

Source : Song: God Is God, Album: Declaration, 2001

“There’s no such thing as a wrong note.”

“The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.”

Source : "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall". Book by Ian Bremmer, 2006.

“There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.”