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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”
Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”
Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.”
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“When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.”
Source : Interview with Win Butler, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011. 
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“Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.”
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“Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.”
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“I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.”
Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.”
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“It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.”
