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If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion.
Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.
I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
Boxing is a metaphor for hitting back and showing you can win in life.
Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.
One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.
It's always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there.
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.
Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.
My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.
I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.
Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.
I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.
I think if the extremists were happy with my films, I'd start to worry.
It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.
It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.
I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.
The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.
My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.
Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.
I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
The promise of an action movie to a certain audience is not a bad thing.
All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.
Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?
I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.
You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.
What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.
Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.
There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.
WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.
If you don't do it this year, you'll just be one year older when you do.
I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.
I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.
You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.
For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.
I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
I love thrillers - 'Dead Calm' is one of my favourite movies of all time.