"The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others."

“My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.”

“One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.”

Source : "Interview: Sleeping Beauty Director Julia Leigh" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. November 29, 2011.

“I'm always jealous of people in the fashion business, especially women. I always feel like they look so light and chic. They figure out how to wear the minimal sort of outfit, whether it be the Prada uniform or a T-shirt with perfect-fitting Levi's and Birkenstocks.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

“The style depends on the subject.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence. . . . Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of adventurous youth.”

“I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.”

“I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?”

“My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and her triumphs over pain and her aching need to find her place. He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.”