Marc Singer Quotations

When you watch all these other projects, you always see the little guy, sitting in the corner, feeling sorry for himself and blaming the whole world, ... You don't see a normal person.

One of them, who I became really friendly with, used to talk about the tunnels, ... He'd say, 'In the wintertime, I'm going into the tunnels. I'm sick of sleeping out here.'

I'd been living in the tunnel for about three months before the idea came up about making the film and really became good friends with the people.

I have so much respect for him. He really just does what his heart is telling him to do. He was amazing to work with and really just a brilliant guy.

My brother Joseph is ill. He has leukemia. They say I've shown courage on the football field, but for me it's only on the field, and only in the fall. Joey lives with pain all the time. His courage is 'round the clock. I want him to have this trophy. It's more his than mine, because he's been such an inspiration to me.

What being a crew and what this film did was give people a sense of future. It gave them a goal to work towards, which was really special.

Other people were fantastic at tapping into electricity. We'd be in a place with no electricity and they would make electricity happen.

After a while you 'd start to see who was good at that job and they treated it like it was the most important thing to them in the world.

There were times when I was ready to shoot myself,

It's very different now, my relationship with them,

If somebody offered me the money I would probably make one but would I actually seek it out? I don't know. I don't really live my life like that.

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them.

I'd see people in the middle of winter sleeping under a blanket in the snow, ... I'd be looking at them from my window and I would think, 'What's going through that person's mind?'

I believe that the biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to their retirement is they do not plan for it. They take the same route as Alice in the story from "Alice in Wonderland," in which the cat tells Alice that surely she will get somewhere as long as she walks long enough. It may not be exactly where you wanted to get to, but you certainly get somewhere.

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.