"It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity."

“Be here now. It keeps us in a place of love, not fear.”

Source : "Orange Is the New Black Star Alysia Reiner: Channeling Compassion Into Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

“I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.”

Source : "Michael Haneke: I try to get closer to reality, close to the contradictions". Interview with Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, metro.co.uk. November 15, 2012.

“I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on ***** in a lot of ways.”

“Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it up. I don't know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don't know.”

“I'm the type of person who always has to be making something.”

“The process is the most beautiful part.”

“Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.”

Source : "Run-DMC star, 37, was hip-hop pioneer", www.cnn.com. October 31, 2002.

“History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.”