"In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire."

“There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.”

Source : Source: thedailyhatch.org

“It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.”

Source : "'Parenthood’s' Mae Whitman: 'All I do is talk about Tim Riggins and the Panthers'". Interview with Willa Paskin, www.salon.com. November 18, 2012.

“When you make a film, you come to say something.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.”

“Life is short, but the years are long.”

“Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.”

“We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.”

“It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.”