The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government.

Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.

You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.

Pessimism never won any battle.

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people

I hate Sunday, and I don't think I'll ever get over it. But I'm going to try.

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.