Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."

It's literally murder on the dancefloor.

But what is past my help is past my care.

The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.

There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don't have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.

Every man - at least once in his lifetime - has visited the silent and dark street of disappointment.

I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.

He who manages the distance, manages the damage.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.