Rockwell Quotes

I admire any director who makes his living solely from directing. I`m fortunate enough to earn a decent wage by occasionally playing psychopaths in other people`s movies, allowing me the luxury of not having to depend on the movies I direct to put food on the table. I especially admire independent directors like Tom DiCillo and Alexandre Rockwell, who never stop trying to create their own way.

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

In the beginning, it wasn`t even a question of deciding I`m going to do independent film and not commercial films -- I wasn`t being offered any commercial films, and there wasn`t an independent scene. I did a lot of so-called" independent films that were really low-budget films trying to be commercial. But you certainly make choices when you have a script written by Jim Jarmusch or the Coen brothers or Alexandre Rockwell; I think any actor would feel lucky to be able to work on projects like that."

Our excellent third quarter results were driven by continued outstanding performance at Rockwell Collins and impressive gains in operating margins at Rockwell Automation compared to a year ago,

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.