"To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself."

“Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.”

“The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.”

“In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.”

Source : "Meat Man Michael Symon Does Meatless Monday". Interview with Peggy Neu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.”

“The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.”

Source : Ernst Fischer (1969). “Art against ideology”

“I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.”

“Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.”