It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.

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.

Life lies between the crossroads of the Nature of the Mind and the Mind of Nature.

He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.

If you want to conquer the stress, anger and illusion of life, live in the moment, enjoy your breathing, count your blessings.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn’t be more wrong.

Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed.

Love listens to the other person and searches for clues on ways to serve, bless and lift up that person.

Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all