There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

If you try to buy love, you will go bankrupt trying to possess it.

I struggle to listen, to sit, and to study-I would rather play and create art with my brushes and putty.I wish I could focus on things that I know-Like cars, Mars, and playing with dough.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.

I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.