"People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough."

-- David Sylvian

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“But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.”

Source : "Exclusive Q&A: Filmmaker Breathes Fire into Ultra-Indie Bellflower". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2011.
“I love to do the things the censors won't pass.”
“Being crazy about someone isn't nice or passionate or deeply moving; it is, surprisingly enough, crazy.”
“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.”

Source : Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.146, Princeton University Press
“Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.”
“If you are going to do something that will annoy people, tell them about it afterwards; then they will only be annoyed that you have done it, and won't have all the exasperation of trying to stop you.”
“Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. July 10, 2000.
“The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.”

Source : Observer 20 August (1978)

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