"If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book."

“The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.”

“Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.”

Source : Sidra Stich, Yves Klein, Hayward Gallery, Museum Ludwig, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1994). “Yves Klein”

“If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.”

“There's a difference between hot women and beautiful women. Hot women are everywhere; they abound. They are beautified, not beautiful. Beautiful women, on the other hand, are rare and a real mystery. Hotness speaks to our impulses. Beauty speaks to our imagination.”

“There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.”

“The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.”

Source : Elizabeth Blair Lee (1991). “Wartime Washington: the Civil War letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee”

“First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.”

“We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.”