The vampire thing always works for some reason. Always works.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Let me just say it out loud so we can laugh together: You're going to find Johnny Depp, take him back to Vahalal, and put him in a zoo?

Black is the queen of colours.

Keep it locked up inside Don't talk about it Talk about the weather Can't see the light

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

Stand on the gas, my friend. If your right foot doesn't ache, you're obviously doing something wrong.