I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.

Who can play without wanting to succeed even with a sentimentally gain?

Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life.

I think, it's so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create a buzz somewhere, it definitely means something.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.

Nature is only another chimera.

If you eat one less candy bar or donut a day, you're doing your body some good.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.