I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

If you've never tried drugs, DON'T. And if you have, pray.

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

I auditioned at the Radisson in Knoxville, and I just did what I always do. I just try to believe what I'm doing.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?

The things that had changed seem out of place, and the things that had remained the same made Charlie feel out of place.

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

You don't need others to change in order to be happy.

I've never made movies to reach millions of people.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

When youre young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.