If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.

I have an inate curiosity about people.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

And in the fountain squatted a giant crab. I’m not talking ‘giant’ like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I’m talking ‘giant’ like bigger than the fountain.

Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life.

Tikka Khan was a soldier doing a soldier's job.