Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

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.

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

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.

Even if you are sad, don’t forget to sing the song of love.

Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?

Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.