“I take a lot less for granted.”

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness.

They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things.

Or maybe we’re all self-conscious to an extent.

It’s not like I crave attention all the time.

I bet they didn’t tell you that was in the gift bag.

I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it’s pretty short-lived.

It’s great when people appreciate your work, but I don’t know how seriously to take it.

It’s interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense.

And the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world,

Something that I’ve always loved and appreciated is the chance to see something about someone’s character.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

Learned how to survive without anything.

It’s been very helpful for my career, but I’m trying to stay on the path I was on before.

My dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.

So there’s more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.

Fiction lies somewhere in between. I usually start intuitively but eventually I need to stop and consider structure, or research, or both.

So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted.

You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment.

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.

Human nature craves novelty.

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation – in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.