Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

God bless the Reference Librarians

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.