I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

Men are pigs. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.

I diet between meals.

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

Life is lived in real places, and I shoot in real places.

Winner knows nothing about food.

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

The child's existence turned a plain world to riches. Her life raised up like this, the child giving point and purpose to each day, the care of him transforming her, widening and deepening her.

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God’s power or presence or purity.

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films; I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely that unrest will spread across its borders.

Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine.