Alex Quotes

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith.

They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.

Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.

For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die.

Being joyful is about staying positive when everything else seems to fail.

Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

Don't throw yourself at someone because of who you think they are, throw yourself at someone because you know you're both in it for the memories.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

I try to be a man of mystery. I try to keep the various projects I'm up to as close to the vest as possible until it's time to reveal them.

Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth!

This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary.

And everybody’s running around talking about ‘Zionists’ all day. Okay, just keep parroting that over and over again.

Look at you walkin' out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did, what you think you fancy huh?!

We once went 13 games without winning. There's always pressure here. Winning is always important here. How do you handle yourself and compose yourself is important. (on Manchester United)

Your attitude is like the aroma of your heart. If your attitude stinks, it means your heart’s not right.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they can remember, and I'm no exception.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

It's hard to listen to your own record or your own songs and not pass judgment in a critical way just because it's your own thing. It's weird to sit down to listen to it to enjoy it.

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.

We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

There is a very specific, unique brand of rivalry that exists between twins. You're always wondering who the Alpha twin is.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic.

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.

People don't get angry about the half a million dead Iraqis from the sanctions.

I do believe in fate.

I'm not on drugs, I'm just weird.