"I can be inspired by anything. It can be from an artist, I love Georgia O'Keefe, de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Lichtenstein, Koons- I love them all. I can be inspired by an artist, a dream, something that I pass by, I was even inspired by a commercial! A commercial of whale war- I was so sad that people were killing whales to extinction, so I made a painting of that. So I can really be inspired by a lot of things."

“From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.”

“Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long.”

Source : "Berlin 2012: Javier Bardem Talks About Alvaro Longoria's 'Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony' (Q&A)". Interview with Pamela Rolfe, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2012.

“Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I would also watch it again when it was repeated at 5:25 P.M. Obsessed.”

“The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me”

Source : Song: The Sea, Album: The Sea, 2010

“Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.”

“Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.”

Source : Kyle Minor (2008). “In the Devil's Territory: Stories”

“Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.”

“Being a mother is magical.”