Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.
Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.
Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.
All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.
My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.
I guess a lot of things I make are relationship movies. Maybe all movies are relationship movies, because they're all about how we relate to each other.
One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.
I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.
I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.
There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.
