If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive
If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that. . . . Because it was not their fault.
There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.
I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let go of them. Or, you know, I`m fascinated with the wrapper on a sardine can. A little cuckoo.
You've gotta be slightly stupid.
I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon.
Build therefore your own world.
Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves — are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire.
Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.