“People expect a nice period piece, but that’s not always the case. There’s a deep human mystery in his work.”

Be yourself. Don’t pretend that you know something you don’t.

Speak about the things you really care about.

[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That’s why it’s not so easy to adapt him.

The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.

Don’t create the appearance of fake authority.

I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production.

Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

You don’t doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same sex-marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you? As far as I can tell, political figures are falling over themselves to endorse your side of the case.

Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

Policemen are numbered in case they get lost.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.