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I'm not someone who's gone to Comic Con as a devotee.
To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.
For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.
The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man
I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.
Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.
Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.
In general, I'm probably seen as an unusual director.
It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web.
I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly.
We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.
For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.
Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.
My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
Yes I did study to be a preacher, but I didn't finish.
It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.
I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.
Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.
The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.
There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.
If I could finance my own movies, I would be doing it.
Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.
Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.
Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.
Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.
I'm not anti-American. I was raised to love both sides.
Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.
I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.
I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.
Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down.
What I always try to do is make the political personal.
Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.
When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.
I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.
I deliberately never read about films before I see them.
Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.
I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope
Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.
What a snarky jerk. (Obviously, I later slept with him.)
I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.
I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you.
You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.
As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.
The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.