"I don't really like the bands that think they're still in 1982. It's boring. When retro sounds are combined with a modern approach, it can be great."

“I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.”

“One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.”

“Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.”

“For me, Modern Warfare 3 's plot makes its signature turn around the bend when Russia invades Europe. As in, all of it. Simultaneously. Now, I've never invaded Europe, except for that one time, but I would think that's a project you might want to stagger out a bit if you haven't forged an alliance with any galactic empires lately.”

“My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.”

Source : "Abramovich: no more of the big spender" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.

“You're never promised your next breath.”

“... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.”

“It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.”