Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.

In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.

I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start treating it as globalization's next great opportunity, understanding that Chinese - along with Indians and Arab sovereign wealth funds - are natural partners in this process.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.