The forces that run the world always try to keep things under control. The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nic….

Hyperbole is something Id better avoid..

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic..

I'm a cartoonist, it's what I am at heart, so cartoons take reality and deform it and make it grotesque, you make it funny, but you alter it. If it w….

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly..

I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as ….

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same..

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly the….

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre..

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know..

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story t….

What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that too. It's easy to make money. It's easy to ….

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it becau….

Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And….

Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautif….

Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people..

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work..

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world..

Gorillaz virtually changed my wife...sorry, I mean, life...no, actually, it was my wife..

[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood ….

If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like st….