If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

Your time is the life you have at a particular moment

I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.

Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.

Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?

You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes.