It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.

Anxiety is the normality of our age.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

For my mum, to whom I'd turn in a heartbeat.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

Caring for others creates the spirit of a nation.

Ronaldinho was virtually unstoppable at his best, as a forward or a playmaker.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now.