It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?

Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that money and the savviness to work the studio's politics.