You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

The best education in film is to make one

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.