Life is just a Box of Chocolates.

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.