I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.

Digging up graves is backbreaking work. So I just like that the genre of horror can embrace so many different styles and textures.

We all seek comfort, and I don't pretend to want to live in squalor.

There are scripts that have come our way that are much more likely to be hits, but we don't really think that way.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking.

I don't write poems to melt your heart.I write them, so our heartscan melt together.

You’re with you 24/7

The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she's maybe a little bit insane.

I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.