“One does not simplyRoland."
Oh boy. I supposed I would get a lecture on the dangers of wandering into Mordor next.”

““When i say Abhinaya, oh, I can't do the abhinaya like what the great man did here yesterday”
- Great Bharatanatyam dancer Balasaraswati next day after Chakyar's lecture-demonstration at Madras Music Academy in 1973.”

“One gets as much information as a witness of activity from a fleeting glance [in the photo], like a quick look, sometimes in motion, as one does staring at the subject. Because even if you remain stationary your mind wanders, and it's that kind of activity that I would like to get into the photograph – a confirmation of the fact that everything is moving.”

“In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.”

“Tonight I’m gonna make you mine
Oh wait, that’s not supposed to be my line
I’m waiting on you to make your move
Boy I know that you think your smooth
Show me what you got cause I got a lot
Come on set your trap I want to get caught”

“A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men.
I have the strength of one small boy… with polio.”

“I suppose you should her it from me that I met your mother" he smiled a litte sadly. "well… When I say met I mean one time I tried to kill her."
"Do me a favor" Zach's voice was low and dark and dangerous. "Next time don't just try”

“It wasn't about, 'Oh I want to make a film where I get to kiss a 10-year-old boy'. To me it was I wanted to make a film where you're trying to understand love.”

“There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.”

“Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?" I would even ask others, "Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?" And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.”