Given how unflinching his productions have been, the 44-year-old McQueen is remarkably gentle and thoughtful - so much so that he will request a moment to consider a question, and turn it around in his head to get the shape and weight of it, before answering, occasionally with an excited rush of words in response.


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ELVIS HODZIC
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at he...
ELVIS PRESLEY
When things go bad, don't go with them.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
ELVIS COSTELLO
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Just a minute,
ELVIS PRESLEY
I ain't no saint, but I have tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God. I f...
ELVIS PRESLEY
Seems to me, that the worlds are moving closer together rather than one invading the other. I believ...
ELVIS COSTELLO
The words that are being spoken are serious, whether you take them at face value or listen to them a...
ELVIS COSTELLO
We have to speak up now,
ELVIS COSTELLO
There's no such thing as an original sin.
ELVIS COSTELLO
When the media attention switches away from this story onto the next thing that happens in the world...
ELVIS COSTELLO
The songs will tell a story that I have imagined existing between the lines of Andersen's biography ...
ELVIS COSTELLO
I've been asked to sing and that's what I do. People come (to this event) for all the right reasons.
ELVIS COSTELLO
Then I recalled that Andersen belongs to the world,
ELVIS COSTELLO
This rally looks sustainable because the gains are smaller. It is not like you have a 250-point gain...
ELVIS PICARDO
I just hope we keep in our minds that an effort like this can never be too expensive.
ELVIS COSTELLO
It would be a surprise if people thought I would be playing a lot of rock 'n' roll.
ELVIS COSTELLO
[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. T...
ELVIS COSTELLO
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!
ELVIS PRESLEY
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I learned a lot from 'Elvis' because it wasn't just the impersonator I had to watch,
ELVIS PRESLEY
Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth)
ELVIS PRESLEY
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
ELVIS COSTELLO
When things go wrong don't go with them
ELVIS PRESLEY
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put i...
ELVIS PRESLEY
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happ...
ELVIS PRESLEY
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
ELVIS PRESLEY
Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one
ELVIS PRESLEY
A Sharon.
ELVIS PRESLEY
It more or less puts your mind at ease, ... It does mine.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I am hands on with this with Bruno,
ELVIS PRESLEY
The interior of the car consists of reupholstered seats, as well as Elvis' initials on the inside of...
ELVIS PRESLEY
better stick to driving trucks.
ELVIS PRESLEY
You got change, man?
ELVIS PRESLEY
We're all just waiting to see what changes, if any, will be made,
ELVIS PRESLEY
Illusions of The King.
ELVIS PRESLEY
and I got the collection my Mother had, and I can't sell any of it.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I j...
ELVIS PRESLEY
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o...
ELVIS PRESLEY
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch "Rebel Without a Cause" a hund...
ELVIS PRESLEY
The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the ye...
ELVIS PRESLEY
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
ELVIS PRESLEY
Only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one
ELVIS PRESLEY
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dolla...
ELVIS PRESLEY