The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

Victor Hugo

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.

William T. Davis

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt.

Sylvia AshtonWarner

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

James Fenimore Cooper

I've never stopped learning.

Mick Taylor

Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.

Harold Clurman

After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

Diane Ackerman

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

Pliny the Elder

I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.

Joan Benoit Samuelson

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two

Benjamin Franklin

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

William Osler

Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.

Terry Pratchett