Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.
Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.
I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit.” (Guardian interview 2006)
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you’re not a traveler. You’re a f@@king tourist.
Kelly was not going to remove her glasses. No matter what the television said about it being safe to do during the ‘totality’. The television also told her she wouldn’t age if she bought expensive creams and pills.
It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it? To be dragged under?
Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.
There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there’s the super vampires, which are a new breed we’ve created.
In the end, perfection is just a concept – an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God’s language is biology. Red blood cells, the principle of magnetic attraction, neurological synapse: each is a miracle, and in each is the presence and flow of God.
Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.
Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.