Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.

It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.