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- Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. — Jean Cocteau
- I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. — Sydney Pollack
- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. — Viggo Mortensen
- If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run. — Viggo Mortensen
- I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way. — Viggo Mortensen