The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.

I see what I have to become and I recognise the time it will take.

In freedom you form in utter disgrace, the bars of my prison this night.While you drift on currents of seraphim heights, it is I who deserve to take flight.

The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.

We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

...The evidence that fluoridation of the public water supply at the rate of one part per million is carcinogenic is irrefutable.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

Comic books are a big passion of mine.