I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Thank God, my name isn’t in the list of thosewho died or werekilled yesterday!

But maybe all it needs is a moment to change the course of history.

Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.

There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.