If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

I have respect for beer.

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

We have here other fish to fry.

If I lose you because of the blind idiot I've been then I will be the one who is destroyed

Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

I want you to be yourself, but not with other dudes.

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.

I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a dream.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of the things and stay there.