Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

Richness is not in wealth or earning capability, but it is in your perception.

I know that feeling when your heart repels your body, not new for me.

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

Virtue is not photogenic.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

There's this sort of migration west at the moment, a sort of energy that's definitely moving to LA.