Rails Quotes

"As much as I love Star Wars (1977) and as much as it`s really revolutionized the imaging business, it went off the rails in the sense that science fiction, historically, was a science fiction of ideas. It was thematic fiction. It stopped being that and became just pure eye candy and pure entertainment. And I miss that. With Battle Angel (2007) I`m going to flirt with that darker, dystopian message as much as I can, without making it an art film."

It was the opposite kind of love than we usually celebrate in films, which is new love without knowledge and without hardship. It`s the whole idea of love after life has had its way with you, and after you have kind of failed each other and things have gone off the rails. Yet love still somehow exists between them." - 2007 AP interview on "Away From Her

Because this issue, above almost all others, touches the trip wires- or the third rails - of our politics.

In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

The whole urban movement in snowboarding is still a little bizarre to me. Those kids can slide on rails, but they don`t really know how to snowboard, and this is going to highlight what it`s like to really be able to ride a board.