Life is made up of marble and mud.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

Lawrence Kasdan

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Frank Herbert

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

Robin Tunney

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

Jodi Picoult

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

William Hazlitt

If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

Ronald Reagan

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Voltaire

I learned from Bruce Lee, Be like water and Gil Grissom from CSI, Be like sponge.

James Dye

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Melissa Rosenberg

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.

Clifford Irving