"The Iranian regime calls for the annihilation of Israel, it oppresses its own citizens, it's part of the murder going on in Syria and it's building an atomic bomb."

“To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.”

“People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set.”

“We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.”

“They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.”

“If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.”

“But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives?”

Source : "The Auteur, The Voyeur: Mike Leigh Talks". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2010.

“The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

“Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.”

Source : New York Times Magazine, December 20, 1964.