The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.

When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it's over for all of us.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.

I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.

In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.

In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It's definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not come from American culture.

She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles."Wizards don't giggle, " I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling.

Poverty of character is not a personality flaw, its is the bankruptcy of morals

if you don´t wanna teach don´t waste time learning

If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

The most important qualification is that the person I pick be ready to become president if something were to happen.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.