"Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it."

“There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.”

“The way an aircraft flies - that is the way the strategy works. Most of the time the plane is on autopilot, and does a great job of flying itself. Every once in a while it is necessary for the pilot to jump in.”

“I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.”

“One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.”

“Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?”

“Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.”

“It's just programming" "No. It's because I love him”

“Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.”

Source : "Exclusive: Actress Aunjanue Ellis and Director Russell Costanzo Discuss 'The Tested'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. April 29, 2011.