| "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." e. e. cummings |
| "They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side." John Mayer |
| "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." William Shakespeare |
| "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." Robert Kennedy |
| "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." Tony Robbins |
| "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Mark Twain |
| "I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods." Georg Trakl |
| "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." Stephen King |
| "I am a part of everything that I have read." Theodore Roosevelt |
| "I dream of painting and then I paint my dream." Vincent Van Gogh |
| "It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book." Cyril Connolly |
| "Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy." Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." Ellen Glasgow |
| "Sometimes, when you're on the streets, certain music inspires you, and then you have a vision. But, at the end of the day, it's a synthesis of visions, so you have to think, as a director, of a scene, or how to deliver a line, or how do this visually." Wong Kar-wai |
| "To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence." Quentin Tarantino |
| "Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment." Claude Monet |
| "Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things." David Lynch |
| "In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it." Rosie Perez |
| "A large social media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears." Guy Kawasaki |
| "You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way." Walter Hagen |
| "Style and structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash." Vladimir Nabokov |
| "I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colours you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion." Pedro Almodovar |
| "I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited." Neill Blomkamp |
| "Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theatre." Roman Polanski |
| "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker." Peter Weir |
| "A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty." Nadia Boulanger |
| "It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies." River Phoenix |
| "I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them." Florence Welch |
| "Every good painter paints what he is." Jackson Pollock |
