As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.

In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen