"For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love."

“I did all sorts of cartoons and stuff. And every once in a while I still do. It's rare, but it happens.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

“It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.”

“Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.”

“I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great in a kind of realistic normal story without throwing objects to the camera, but using the 3D on the emotions in an intimate story.”

Source : "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.

“We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.”

Source : "Jonathan Safran Foer: technology is diminishing us" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2016.

“Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.”

Source : R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.208, Knopf Books for Young Readers

“I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.”