Control is an advertising concept.

Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

Sometimes the heart demands.

We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.

If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.

Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.

We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.

I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for the people I had met and the people I had lost.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

In my pictures, you never know, that’s the mystery. It’s just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. It’s fashion in disguise.

Light on my heart, Light on my feet, Light in your eyes, I can't even speak Do you even know, How you make me weak

Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

You can either complain or look for opportunity in every problem. I prefer opportunity.