Pulp Quotes
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Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.
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Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.
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Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.
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As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.
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I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.
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I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.
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Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.
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It's really interesting for me as a filmmaker to go back and look at the films I've made and see where I was at that point in my life and also where my ideals were and the beliefs that I had and look at the ways I've grown and evolved and apply that to the next thing.
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I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.
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I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
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One of the biggest things I struggle with in life is not being present. I'm worried about my future or I'm dwelling on my past, and I'm wondering why I'm not feeling so great right now, but it's because I'm everywhere else, besides what is currently happening in front of me.
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I love putting things together. I love putting together a team and making stuff with people. It's great, that's what's cool about movies it's such a collaborative effort.
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We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.
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Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.
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Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.
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I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
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In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
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I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible.
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The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."
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I don't think people should abuse the fact that they are in showbiz. You still have to be human. I think that's the point. Showbiz is about showing human things - just amplified, that's all. And when it gets too much into, "Hey, we're part of the showbiz club and we can do what we want," it turns me off and I hate it.
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I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.
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The system is in place whereby if an umpire cries off, or both as was the case here, those umpires are to be replaced.
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Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.
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There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.