"Even if you have money, access to MoCap technology, and strong choreographic and computer-animation abilities, don't try to make a film like this if you don't have a lot of patience, perseverance and a deep affinity for risk-taking."

“It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.”

“Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.”

“Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.”

Source : Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.74, Penguin

“Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.”

“In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.”

“Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .”

“She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason..”

“People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.”

Source : "John Hughes: In Memory" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. August 6, 2009.