It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.

Shawn Ryan

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Nora Ephron

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]

He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

Sam Shepard

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

Will Smith

A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.

Lisa Kleypas

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Ulysses Simpson Grant

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Benjamin Franklin

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

Freida Pinto

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau