"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision."

“You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.”

“I'm always a person that's a little suspicious of anything that's been converted in post, but if I know that it's been originated, either in live-action or animation, I'm intrigued.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“If you just think about the difficulty you'll never get anywhere.”

“I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.”

“It's great that the Internet can enhance and speed up our communications and that computers can do all the things they do. It's fabulous. At the same time, it changes our priorities. For example, before I would always remember people's telephone numbers and now I don't know anyone's number. So what happens if computer systems go down but you still have landlines? Well, I couldn't call anyone because I don't know anyone's number.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .”

Source : R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.423, Hachette UK

“Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.”

Source : William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press