"No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change."

“There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.”

“If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.77

“There was a time when He was not.”

“The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.”

Source : John Lawson (2010). “A New Voyage to Carolina”, p.132, BoD – Books on Demand

“You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.”

“Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It's a very exciting and exhausting thing to do.”

“I try to discover the character's primary motivation. In a screenplay, you can make up a hundred different variables of a character. Is he there for love or respect, or is he there out of fear? What's he doing? Why is he doing it? Then I can build on the intricacies. Does he pick his fingernails? Does he always do this when he's lying? All the little things that come with it. But it's also like, if you're doing a caricature and you're like, "I want to do a blue-collar guy from Jersey," you have to go and do the research on the region, the who, what and why.”

Source : Source: abilitymagazine.com

“The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.”

Source : "Reading 'The Reader' with Stephen Daldry". Rotten Tomatoes Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. February 17, 2009.