Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.

The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.

In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a certain moment, the business is closed. I like to be alone: in order to concentrate on my work, the social life does not exist. It has never existed for me, really. I have chosen instead the working life because I prefer that.

I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.