I don't have a lot of self-confidence. I'm getting there. Before I had zero confidence, but it's one of those things you learn and accept.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

I take every day as it comes and if I have to be somewhere, I'll be there.

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

I think I'm very in touch with nature because I grew up in that surrounding. That's a big part of who I am; I don't know anything different.

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.

I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

When scorching passion only leaves ashes of unfulfilled dreams, hope may entice the sprinkling magic of our imagination into livening up the footlights on a new stage of life. ("Taken for a ride")

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

The grace of God comes swiftly to the soul when endurance is no longer possible.

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, Are gone forever, Yet mindless The spring comes again.

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

To see farther, you must climb higher.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

There are remedies for all things but death.