They will love me for that which destroys me..

The image is an image..

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead..

God hides things by putting them near us..

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal se….

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

I'm 13 to 17, 18 years old; I thought that's what the world was like. It never occurred to me that this was a very unusual period in music history. S….

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this….

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug ….

The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your ….

When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music wa….

We believe in the joy and power of music, and we also see that to make this kind of statement today, you need to be a hero, because there are more do….

My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels, ….

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..