Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Music stops you from thinking.

Today is a beautiful day. I AM deeply grateful for everything in my life. ALL is welcome here!

Freedom has never been free.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.

Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.

All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.

You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.