Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

This is the biggest damn IPod I've ever seen, " Claire said, which made him choke on his beer. "Kidding. I have seen a jukebox before.

The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity

In a world of stupidity a thinking man is insane

It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

God is raising up a new standard, a new banner if you will, that's going to radically change the expression, the understanding of Christianity in our generation.

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.