"I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork."
"Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there."
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Source: Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.
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