In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past