"Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway."

“For me, water means a lot of things. It's my belief that human beings are just like plants. They can't live without water or they'll dry up. Human beings, without love or other nourishment, also dry up. The more water you see in my movies, the more the characters need to fill a gap in their lives, to get hydrated again.”

“Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.”

Source : Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.30, Vintage

“I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Passion is like genius: a miracle.”

Source : Romain Rolland (1938). “Jean Christophe”

“The fear factor was my greatest challenge with The Whispering Town. How could I portray danger without really frightening the youngest readers and without diluting the story?”

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“Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.”

“That's blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you”

Source : Keri Arthur (2009). “Bound to Shadows: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel”, p.125, Dell

“Resting for me is fitness training.”