A GOOD ARTIST Has LESS TIME Than IDEAS.

When I'm Writing, Sometimes It Gets To That PLACE Where I FEEL LIKE The Piece Is Writing Itself And I'm TRYING Not To Get In The WAY.

The FILM's DRAMATIC Requirements Should Always TAKE Precedence Over The MERE Aesthetics Of EDITING.

In Japan, I Am Famous In CERTAIN SPECIAL CIRCLES - Mainly As Someone Who Is Trying To BREAK Down And Enlighten The Conventions Of Japanese Art.

A Particularly Fine HEAD On A Man Usually MEANS That He Is Stupid; Particularly Deep PHILOSOPHERS Are Usually Shallow Thinkers; In Literature, TALENTS Not Much Above The Average Are Usually REGARDED By Their Contemporaries As Geniuses.

The Creative Habit Is LIKE A Drug. The PARTICULAR Obsession Changes, But The EXCITEMENT, The THRILL Of Your CREATION Lasts.

The EDUCATOR MUST Above All Understand How To Wait; To Reckon All Effects In The Light Of The Future, Not Of The Present.

Time, Which Runs Through The World LIKE An ENDLESS Tinsel Thread, Seemed To Pass Through The Centre Of This Room And Through The Centre Of These People And SUDDENLY To Pause And Petrify, Stiff, Still And Glittering... And The Objects In The Room Drew A Little CLOSER Together.

There MUST Be No Worse PUNISHMENT To A TOTALITARIAN Nation Than The Withdrawal Of CAPITAL.

We Spent A MONTH In LA Using A Pool Of MUSICIANS, A String Arranger Called Benjamin Wright, Some GREAT Backing Singers, And It GAVE Tracks Like Dynamite, Which Was Written There, That Kind Of Flavour.