"I don't like inherited wealth."

“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.

“I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.”

“it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.”

Source : Dorothea Brande (2013). “Wake Up and Live!: A Formula for Success That Really Works!”, p.40, Penguin

“Come a crisis, we want other people.”

Source : "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

“Instead of asking for help, I just dig in and do everything myself.”

Source : Source: thecelebritycafe.com

“If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.”

“As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. May 30, 2002.

“Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.”

Source : David Richo (2008). “The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them”, p.91, Shambhala Publications