The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot.

I grew up in Portugal, and people there party 'til 7 or 8 in the morning there.

Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

I've been under audit almost for 15 years.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.