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

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 my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It's definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not come from American culture.

Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you.

Life is either the same song you sing day in and day out, or you go out into the world and devise your own soundtrack.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?

At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.

It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

You can't be fixed. You can't be saved.

You really can't prepare for anything in life. The second you know what's going to happen, there's always a curve ball, so I'm just chillin', cruising along for the ride.

I've always had a passion for hockey, ... That's the key. You can't be putting in time. You have to enjoy doing what you do.