The poetic side of me is Scottish.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

The holiness of the gospel is its ability to pierced though the heart.

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.

If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.