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“I'm not going to sit at home and eat popcorn,”
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“You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.”
Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.”
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“We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.”
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“Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.”
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“I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to write about everything, the life we're having and the lives we might have had. I wanted to write about all the ways we might have died.”
Source : Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.67, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
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“I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.”
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“The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.