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“Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.”
Source : "SFIFF ’11: Ewan McGregor & Mike Mills Talk The Sadness, Humor & Joy Of ‘Beginners’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. April 25, 2011. 
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“Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!”
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“English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.”
Source : Rachel Johnson (2009). “In a Good Place: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster
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“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”
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“It's important to me that I don't take myself too seriously and I have fun with every experience in life. That is the whole point.”
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“Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.”
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“If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.”
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“As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.”
