“Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.”

“Jeder fr sich und Gott gegen alle”

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”

“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”

“Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and devel...”

“If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enqui...”

“We only pass this way once..unless our significant other is reading the map..”

“The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.”

“So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Franci...”

“But love's a malady without a cure.”

“One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.”

“My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.”

“Custom is second nature.”

“If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.”