If you never lived out your sexuality - it's a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that create? Energy: positive and negative, self-loathing.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

I kept my whole life in suitcase, Never really stayed in one place, Maybe that's the way it should be, You know I live my life like a gypsy.

Dance allows confidence to grow and inhibitions to fall away, and I pride myself on building people's confidence.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

I need to make mistakes, just to learn (who i am)

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.