I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it's over for all of us.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.

I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.

The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.

In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.

Goutam Buddha

Margaret is the most beautiful woman I've laid eyes on. The men in this county must be crazy not to see that.

Honesty's the best policy.

Cryptic Dad is cryptic, ' I muttered ... We'd hung out all day today. Was there no time in there he could have said, 'Oh, hey, meet me at the magical bookcase at the butt-crack of dawn tomorrow, cool?

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

...we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.