We all seek comfort, and I don't pretend to want to live in squalor.

The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.

Digging up graves is backbreaking work. So I just like that the genre of horror can embrace so many different styles and textures.

I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

There are scripts that have come our way that are much more likely to be hits, but we don't really think that way.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely.

There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

I'm always going to be a singer.

When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain?

England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286

If you can't find the exact quote you want, make it up.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.