San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world. . . I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers. . . You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.
Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing. . . pencil is more my medium than wet paint.
I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one. . . . . . I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
Silence is so accurate.
My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle.
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.
The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U. S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.
Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.
My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby - but just me. Nobody else.
Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him
I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
I quite like convincing the person the broom is their favourite actress. They are talking to a broom and they think it's Julia Roberts and they snog it. In Reading one guy took the broom into the wings and was getting amorous with it. I had a struggle to get it back. He was exhausted when he came out.
Fashion is capitalism's favourite child.
You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.
After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.