There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

You can't lie to your soul.

I need to be more romantic. I do. I know that's something women really appreciate.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.

I bend but do not break.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.