"We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to point to that. There are too many stories that end happily and say very little about life."

“I've never seen a performer create electricity with an audience like James Brown. He's got everybody in his hands and whatever he wants to do with them, he does it. It's amazing. I've always thought he was underrated.”

“There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.”

Source : "Interview: Richard Jenkins on First Lead Role in 'The Visitor,' 'Six Feet Under,' Coen Brothers". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. June 24, 2008.

“The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.”

Source : John Barth (2006). “Where Three Roads Meet”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Everything in the street today seems soft focus.”

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”

“In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.”

“The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.”

Source : Concurring in the judgment, Lopez v. United States 373 U.S. 427, 1963.

“I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.”