The Drug War is an addiction, really.
I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.
It is very important to develop the thing that you are naturally good at, that you are truly interested in.
If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.
Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.
The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.
Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.