All Quotes

"Maybe my favorite book in the world...I have never started a novel...without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing."

"It is fashionable among my friends to disparage [Conrad]. It is even necessary. Living in a world of literary politics where one wrong opinion often proves fatal, one writes carefully.... It is agreed by most of the people I know that Conrad is a bad writer, just as it is agreed that T. S. Eliot is a good writer. And now he is dead and I wish to God they would have taken some great, acknowledged technician of a literary figure and left him to write his bad stories."

"Melville doesn't sentimentalize the ocean and the sea's unfortunates. Snivel in a wet hanky like Lord Jim."

"I think some of the greatest writing has been also about writers like Conrad or Nabokov, who have illuminated and given us fresh views about the new countries they adopted."

"Only the essential is true; Joseph Conrad, in a letter of advice, drives this home by recommending deletions, explaining that these words are "not essential and therefore not true to the fact.""

"They are very fascinating and very terrible, these tales of Conrad's in which he brings civilisation to the judgment of nature, and causes it to shake like a withering tree."

"I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."

"Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green"

"Courteney Cox as Monica Geller"

"Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay and Ursula Buffay"

"Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani"

"Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing"

"David Schwimmer as Ross Geller"

"Reggie: Oh, man! I am so ticked!"

"Otto: Tony. I mean, Mr. Hawk!"

"Rocket Power was inspired by our kids, who of course are grown now and interested in extreme sports, skateboarding and Roller Blading. I grew up close to Orange County [Calif.] beach towns where surfing was, and still is, very popular. Even though that culture has evolved, it's sort of the same kids who hang out and are the coolest and most relaxed," she says. "So there's this sort-of cool culture going on that most people aren't privvy to."

"The Rugrats Movie (1998)"

"Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000)"

"Rugrats Go Wild (2003)"

"Mona Marshall"

"The origins of "Rugrats" began when Vanessa Coffee, a development executive at Nickelodeon, contacted our animation studio. I had taken fifteen months off work after my second child was born. I was working from home on concepts for "Sesame Street" shorts. Gabor Csupo, my husband at the time, asked me to come up with ideas to pitch to NICK. So, I quickly expanded notes I’d written from one of the "Sesame Street" ideas. My thoughts were, "if babies could talk what would they say" and "what was the logic that drove tiny humans to desperately want to stick their hands in the toilet?" It fascinated me, but mostly I found it humorous. Paul Germain, our development executive at the time, and Gabor Csupo then pitched several ideas to Nickelodeon. Vanessa Coffee had the foresight to choose what ultimately became "Rugrats" and Gerry Laybourne, the President of NICK at the time, had the vision to green-light it! Gabor and I sketched some of the original characters and worked with Paul on creating the world of "Rugrats". Together we produced a pilot that Peter Chung, a brilliant artist and animator, directed. The super talented Mark Mothersbaugh created the music for the show. The studio produced the "Rugrats" and "All Grown Up" series over the next decade as well as two "Rugrats" movies and a third film, where the "Rugrats" meet "The Wild Thornberrys". Our studio just exploded with work! The next ten years were intense for me because I was raising two children and working. Gabor and I continued to create or produce nine more animated series."

"Paul Hörbiger - Porter"

"I never knew the old Vienna before the war with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm. Constantinople suited me better. I really got to know it in the classic period of the Black Market. We'd run anything if people wanted it enough - mmm - had the money to pay. Of course, a situation like that does tempt amateurs but you know they can't stay the course like a professional. Now the city - it's divided into four zones, you know, each occupied by a power: the American, the British, the Russian and the French. But the center of the city that's international policed by an International Patrol. One member of each of the four powers. Wonderful! What a hope they had! All strangers to the place and none of them could speak the same language. Except a sort of smattering of German. Good fellows on the whole, did their best you know. Vienna doesn't really look any worse than a lot of other European cities. Bombed about a bit. Oh, I was gonna tell you, wait, I was gonna tell you about Holly Martins, an American. Came all the way here to visit a friend of his. The name is Lime, Harry Lime. Now Martins was broke and Lime had offered him, some sort, I don't know, some sort of job. Anyway, there he was, poor chap. Happy as a lark and without a cent."

"HUNTED...By a thousand men! Haunted...By a lovely girl!"

"Hunted by men...Sought by WOMEN!"

"Joseph Cotten - Holly Martins"

"Alida Valli - Anna Schmidt"

"Orson Welles - Harry Lime"

"Trevor Howard - Major Calloway"

"Ernst Deutsch - 'Baron' Kurtz"

"Erich Ponto - Dr. Winkel"

"Siegfried Breuer - Popescu"

"Hedwig Bleibtreu - Anna's Landlady"

"Bernard Lee - Sergeant Paine"

"Wilfrid Hyde-White - Cribbin"

"Sam: Just make up some story."

"Twister: Tell him, "The Rats Ate The Puck"."

"Twister: And bad for the team."

"Sam: Right."

"Reggie: So Twist, you just got to tell him he can't play."

"Twister: I'm not gonna tell him."

"They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer."

"Sushi. That's what my ex-wife used to call me. "Cold fish.""

"The charmer's name was Gaff, I'd seen him around. Bryant must have upped him to the Blade Runner unit. That gibberish he talked was city speak, gutter talk. A mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German, what have you. I didn't really need a translator, I knew the lingo, every good cop did. But I wasn't going to make it easier for him."

""Skin jobs". That's what Bryant called Replicants. In history books he's the kind of cop who used to call black men "niggers"."

"I'd quit because I'd had a belly full of killing. But then I'd rather be a killer than a victim, and that's exactly what Bryant's threat about "little people" meant. So I hooked in once more thinking if I couldn't take it I'd split later. I didn't have to worry about Gaff. He was brown-nosing for a promotion, so he didn't want me around anyway."

"I didn't know whether Leon gave Holden a legit address. But it was the only lead I had, so I checked it out."

"Whatever was in the bathtub was not human. Replicants don't have scales."

"And family photos? Replicants didn't have families either."

"Tyrell really did a job on Rachael. Right down to a snapshot of a mother she never had... a daughter she never was. Replicants weren't supposed to have feelings... neither were blade runners. What the hell was happening to me?"