Ive been lucky. Ive made films that I really like. Its been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. Ive gone after lots of things that I didnt get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, youre lucky if you get anything. – Hope Davis
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. – Matthew Arnold
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter. – Henry Ward Beecher
