Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

This is another awful truth of losing people you love: everyone needs something different. And the needs almost never match up.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.

You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve great things.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

The place of the expert is on tap not on top.

When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.