"I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell."

“I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.”

Source : "And the Winner Is: 'The Great Beauty' for Best Foreign Language Film". Interview with Sydney Levine, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2014.

“The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.”

Source : Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.2, ASCD

“Trust me. A storm is brewing inside this cool cat now. She'll gradually break down and you'll see what's behind the clouds.”

Source : Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.55, Penguin

“Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out of our hearts 'proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness' (Mk. 7:21) and so on ? these are what motivate people.”

Source : Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

“The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.”

“If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.”

“It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.”

“Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.”