During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

Men are pigs. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.

I diet between meals.

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN.

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

Life is lived in real places, and I shoot in real places.

Winner knows nothing about food.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Enough is never enough.

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.

Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

Fanatics," Halt said. "Don't you just love 'em?

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.