"Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?"

“In my films, I like to use the same actors again and again, so I know them really well and can bring their unique personalities into the process. However, as a director, I have strict control over the way they express their personalities. I don't want them to go beyond what I need from them, but I also don't want them to underplay. So I modulate their performances very closely, within a certain range of expression.”

“Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.”

Source : Malcolm Lowry (1985). “Under the Volcano”

“I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.”

“Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.”

“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”

“At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.”

“No one ever judges their own self.”

Source : "Q&A: James Wolk on the Brilliant Bob Benson". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2013.

“Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”