"I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor."

“I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com

“Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish”

“It's very hard for Europe, the US and Russia to have much influence on the growing problems elsewhere in the world unless we have our own backyard in a more stable and cooperative atmosphere.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.”

“'Glee' has made me feel beautiful.”

“All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass the benzene ring of their tyrosin unbroken and how and where the peculiar chemical change from tyrosin to homogentisic acid is brought about, remain unsolved problems.”

“It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.”

“I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.”

Source : "Julian Ovenden: 'The iPhone is surely the must-have gadget'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.