We can all look to our friends, family, and those we admire for inspiration.

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It's an incredible achievement. I couldn't do it.

I really admire Mark Ruffalo and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Vincent Gallo, for example, who writes and directs and acts in his own films.

Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

I admire traveling; I appreciate it a lot.

I admired Stephen Fleming.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.

I've got a very soft spot for Mohammad Amir. As a person and as a cricketer, I admire him greatly.

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.

I respect and admire the Premier League.

I admire Cristiano's ambition and his goal-scoring touch.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.