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“Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives”
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“If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens”
Source : Twitter post from Feb 20, 2014
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“I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.”
Source : "Dakota Fanning on Why It's Good to Be a "Weird Person"". Interview by Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. August 9, 2016.
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“Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.”
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“Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.”
Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.
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“I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.”
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“I love L.A. I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle. As opposed to New York, where you just drink all day.”
Source : "Questions And Answers From Tribeca: Jack Reynor". Interview with Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. April 26, 2013.
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“To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.”