Cross-Referencing Quotes

When we hear news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Our staff not only received the reports from these agencies, they examined them. They questioned them.

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are, and to look where things have gone missing.

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.

I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.

I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.

I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.

The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read has a cameo role in another. I think that recognition is a very, very powerful phenomenon; it is one of the deepest and greatest pleasures of reading.

It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all.