“I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.”

How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.

The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.

I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.

I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.

I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.

I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.

I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.

There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really

When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

I never thought it was an option.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.

I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.

You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe.

It’s never OK to lose a game.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.