Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

I've just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

One finds limits by pushing them.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.

Living is a constant source of inspiration.

It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.

Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.

I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes.

As I change and grow, different things excite me and I just follow where that leads me.

What keeps me going are my learnings, which I would rather call my 'experience,' and my urge to explore.

A new challenge, to me, is really exciting.

I would love to open up my horizons. I love trying new things.

We get inspired and we learn new things.