...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.

That low vice, curiosity!

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

Christian Bale

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Charlie Trotter

[He]said something that made it impossible to continue working for him.[The exact words were]You're fired.

Christopher Hitchens

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

JeanLuc Godard

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Albert Camus

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

Amelia Barr

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

Aaron Carter

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Benazir Bhutto

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Thomas Paine

I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke 16:3

Bible

She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?

Cornelia Funke