For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.

Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.

Stop fighting yourself and accept where you are in life. Let this time in your life motivate you to let go of all of the things that are holding you back.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.

The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first

Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.

I would go to war with Dhoni by my side.

Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it."

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

Chelsea look like they've got a couple more gears left in the locker.