The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.
When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.
It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.
I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.
For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.
When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over.
All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.
O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.
I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.
There are some honorable politicians; and God bless them, there aren't many of them - but they're narcissistic. They need people to love them.
In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.