We always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing.

When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

You can almost take the book and use it as a script.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

Just charge me with the usual.

If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

That's not normal, because we don't want to be normal. Normal is what weak people call it living. I call it death.

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag, Baldwin, Vidal, Mary McCarthy, Mailer.

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.

All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.