I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

You can't make people respond.

If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.

Everything I do is the environment.

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

A man of God doesn't lead a woman through dictatorship, he leads her through a partnership guided by God.

It's all about money. Sometimes it is merciful, sometimes it is magnificent and sometimes it is moderate

In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

Looking at my reflection tonight, I see a new girl staring back at me. She has big hair and big eyes and a big heart. Not only is she the perfect size and pretty...she is smart. -Mackenzie

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

When you make a movie with Alejandro Amenábar, he very quickly... it was very clear you're kind of operating in his dream universe.

Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in all of our lives.

...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette

Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would be exterminated for all time by the Jews.