Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

You get really scrappy when you're making things for zero dollars, and you just have to keep thinking like that. It's not like, 'Oh, we now have a little bit more money, let's do things differently.' If you just keep boiling it down to the simplest possible way to make it, I think that always ends up being the best.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

I have learned that you can't be high-maintenance on the road. I've groomed myself to not be high-maintenance. You have to maintain and be a girl and not become a dude.

Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.

My kitchen is limited at best. I have one drawer. But I make do with what I have; it's taught me to be super efficient in terms of how I clean and how I put things away.

If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

We always keep things very, very simple. We can make a respectable living playing a smaller room that somebody else couldn't, because they're spending a lot of money. If we can't get a show up and deliver with what we almost intrinsically have in our brains and our pockets, then I don't really want to do it.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.

I grew up learning to do more with less.

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.