I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens..

Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie..

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it..

Happiness is not a place - it is a direction..

All the good are friends of one another..

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing..

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the man….

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone..

For me and my films I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional and I want yo….

There are things about which I don't even talk to myself..

My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby….

You cannot predict the future, but you can create it..

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward..

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly..

I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. C….

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV..

Cinema is dead, long live cinema..

I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not ne….

I love what I'm doing for a living..

I'm very competitive..

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which enterta….