Chris Weitz

And it's good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Good-bye, my friends, I love you; good-bye, I'm sorry I didn't know you better; good-bye, I'm sorry you'll die soon, too; good-bye, maybe there's hope for you; good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.

Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history.

It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.

'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

An accessible introduction to the nature of political thought. Just what I always wanted.