Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be.

I look up, and Jackson's eyes find mine. For a second, it almost feels like we're about to race into the hole to join you. Being buried alive has got to be better than whatever comes next.

Grace does not depend on what we have done, but on what God has done for us.

I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.

Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.

Trust. That was what this was all about. If you can't trust the one you love, you don't have anything.

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.