My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

I'd love to make another film in Mexico.

Alex Cox

When one teaches, two learn.

Robert Half

Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Simone de Beauvoir

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

J.K. Rowling

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Princess of Wales Diana

Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.

Lemony Snicket

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Francis Picabia

I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

Barack Obama

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Mao Zedong

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Stanislav Grof

I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.

Kristen Stewart