I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

You can't make people respond.

If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

Everything I do is the environment.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

There's just something about vampires that's sexy. It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them.

There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.

We must carry things beyond conversation to conclusion.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

I think I've been able to build up a wide range of styles in storytelling, using comics in different ways from project to project. I think my art has become more accomplished, although I try to keep it from becoming slick or superficial.

Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal. Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and everything related to it has become one of the most trivial activities of our epoch.

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young of physical weakness in the old.

The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Plant your flag respectfully stand for truth justice and freedom for all.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and not replaced. Maybe they're deemed unnecessary because nobody cares if anything's good or not.

I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.

No Christian can be a pessimist for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.