I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

I have respect for beer.

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

I hated school right away. Religion had a lot to do with it because I felt like everybody was always lying to me.

Who would have thought when they came to the fight? That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.

I pre-screen restaurants because my objective is to never have a bad meal, and I get pretty close to that.

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.