Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

A victor knows that problems exist but he does not isolate himself from them

I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

[NATO countries] have no respect for our country. They will do it. They'll be happy to do it.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Steve McManaman once described Zinedine Zidane as ridiculous. You can't get a higher compliment than that.

We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing a sustainable future for us all

Drugs won't enhance your performance.

It doesn't take much to show love, but at some time or another in your, praise God, disastrous life you must have felt, honestly and simply, what love is and how love likes to behave.

Hegemony is as old as mankind.