The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.

All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.

They always always understimate women

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the right thing to do and I am not going to be afraid.

My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.

You can have a worldwide shop from your bedroom. You can do things that weren't even dreamed of when I started off in business. It's why technology is the most wonderful thing for small businesses.