I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.

Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total.

I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.

I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.

To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour

No. I really don't think I'm cool. I'm not.

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

I'm pretty bad at seeing new films.

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

Success will be when every child in the world has access to a service like Childline and knows that someone who cares is just a phone call away

We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it's being led by YOU.

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?