In Dreams...well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Some think they are seeking their own soul's truth but the greater Soul is thinking and seeking through them

Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.