"Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding."

“Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.”

“I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.”

“Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.”

Source : "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.

“I started out as a Democrat.”

“The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.”

“Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.”

“Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.”

Source : Jane Urquhart (2014). “Changing Heaven”, p.109, Hachette UK

“Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.”