I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Music stops you from thinking.

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

The failure to read the Holy Bible leads to spiritual depletion.

Mind power use is neither a religion nor an elaborate program. You have everything within you to succeed: right attitude and right intentions.

Alcohol is good for killing microbes. It does mean that it also kills macrobes (human).

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

I reboot [my Windows PC] every night.

I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.

Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

If things are getting darker, the problem is with us.

You can always become better.