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“You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more.”
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“Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.”
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“Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.”
Source : "A life in books". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009. 
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“It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Energy is the prime mover of all we see and know. You change the energy and your body has to respond.”
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“I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.”
Source : "RT Interview: David Yates on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 15, 2009.
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“At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it , shaking against his pounding fists , one arm gripping her belly and a hand across her mouth , as he spoke throughout the door and promised that he would come back for her . She stood there until he tired , until he gave up , and then she listened to his uneven footsteps until they faded , until all was quiet , save for the gunfire cracking in the hills and her own heart thudding in her belly , her eyes , her bones .”
