I love cinema. It is the most important thing to me. Life is cinema. It has been this way since I was a child of about 14, and I was going every day to see the movies.

I don't think I've made good movies. I've just made some movies more disgusting than others.

I don't think I've done anything important or magnificent. I'm a worker, and the thing I prefer in my life is cinema. When I'm working in cinema, I'm happy. And that's all, you know?

I don't think I have a definitive film. Such a thing is not possible for me.

I am not retired! I will be retired the day I die.

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’

You have to smile after making trouble. This way you get in less trouble.

It's always something

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

The sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach