Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

Jesus recognized that God within him and became Christ - so did Siddhartha Gautama and became Buddha - so did I - and so can you.

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.

Grumbling is the death of love.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

Chris Chandler reminds me of my own self way back when - listen to him Now!

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.