I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it's over for all of us.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.

I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.

The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.

In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.

It's fine to feel truer than others.But it's much truer to fix our fault.

The ultimate way to change something is to change what is behind that something. Change what is behind something and something will change!

Without God’s help and His grace, it is impossible for a country to be transformed

Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else.

A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from Why can't you see it like I do? to Help me see what I might be missing!

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.