Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking fromThe weight of primary noon ...

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

The worst enemy in life is resentment.

I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.

Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character.

What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde harmonies that I adore.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.