Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.

A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.

The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.

One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone.

Our lips meet and he playfully bites me.” —Sofia Herrera (Total Abandonment, Unbearable Passion, #4)

To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple.

There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.

Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.