John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.

You're not a real manager unless you've been sacked.

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.

People say, that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you, doesn't kill you.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.