Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.


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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sit...
QUENTIN CRISP
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry...
QUENTIN CRISP
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem ...
QUENTIN CRISP
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be sa...
QUENTIN CRISP
Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who...
QUENTIN CRISP
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many yea...
QUENTIN CRISP
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
QUENTIN CRISP
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs o...
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This m...
QUENTIN CRISP
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a...
QUENTIN CRISP
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
QUENTIN CRISP
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
QUENTIN CRISP
Vice is its own reward
QUENTIN CRISP
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if...
QUENTIN CRISP
You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it we...
QUENTIN CRISP
Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
QUENTIN CRISP
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISP
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a...
QUENTIN CRISP
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be sa...
QUENTIN CRISP
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
QUENTIN CRISP
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of ...
QUENTIN CRISP
I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
QUENTIN BLAKE
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of the...
QUENTIN CRISP
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a...
QUENTIN CRISP
The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzli...
QUENTIN BRYCE
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appa...
QUENTIN CRISP
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be ...
QUENTIN CRISP
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
QUENTIN CRISP
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey ...
QUENTIN BRYCE
For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
QUENTIN CRISP
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?
QUENTIN CRISP
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
QUENTIN CRISP
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of tw...
QUENTIN CRISP
Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed see...
QUENTIN CRISP
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that i...
QUENTIN CRISP
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now so...
QUENTIN CRISP
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
QUENTIN CRISP
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is...
QUENTIN CRISP
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any wor...
QUENTIN CRISP
I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned
QUENTIN CRISP
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disast...
QUENTIN CRISP
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
QUENTIN CRISP
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
QUENTIN CRISP
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you underst...
QUENTIN CRISP
The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now s...
QUENTIN CRISP
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
QUENTIN CRISP
The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy
QUENTIN CRISP
Turning a broken process into a “non-negotiable” standard does not a good procedure make.
QUENTIN BRAUN
It takes more than talking points and consultative knowhow. What sets apart a legitimate and compete...
QUENTIN BRAUN