"I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in."

“Imagination is all about new possibilities, eventualities that don't exist, counterfactuals, a recombination of elements in new ways. It is about the untested. And the untested is uncertain. It is frightening-even”

Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.99, Canongate Books

“Around here, no one deserves anything. You have to earn it.”

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

“It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.”

“I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.”

“I love movies and I think that we wouldn't ever stop making videos just because people aren't watching them. I think that's just kinda sad. It would be cool to spend a lot of money, but we'll always make videos just for ourselves.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com

“When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.”

“Winners develop the habit of doing the thing losers don't like to do.”

Source : Tom Ward, Paul Gustavson, Ed Foreman (2013). “The Power of Living by Design”, p.33

“Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.188, Columbia University Press