"I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting."

“Patience is the healthiest ingredient of our life.”

“Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.”

Source : "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

“Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.”

“The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.”

Source : Alan Dean Foster (2011). “Splinter of the Mind's Eye: Star Wars Legends”, p.90, Del Rey

“Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.”

“War is failure of diplomacy.”

Source : "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

“I like to look strong and commanding.”

“The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.”