Thom Powers Inspirational Quotes (7)

It's a reality of film festivals that you can't see everything. You're dividing your time between seeing films and utilizing that unique space to have meetings with people that you can't otherwise.

I find myself being quite cynical - and I think we all kind of are - towards the idea that it's associated with being a musician you know... the kind of rock-star attitude. So, I hope that people know it's a joke.

You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.

When you're at a film festival, you have a rapt and enthused audience and if you can point them to a Kickstarter campaign, that's a great way to leverage that enthusiasm. Even if you don't need finishing funds, it's a way to get outreach funds.

Betrayal, in one form or another, is at the very heart of the world of intelligence.

The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How is a national leader to explain the sacrifice of so much for nothing?

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.