mark’s most recent Quotables

I realised that it is true. No one's really there fighting for you in the last garrison. No one except yourself that is, no one except you. You are the one who's got your back 'till the last deeds done.

Big Hollywood studios want you to believe in 3-D because they want to carry on believing in their own bank accounts. It has nothing to do with 'the future' of cinema, merely the future of film finance.

I don't write my music for Sony.
I write it for the people who are screaming
down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.
There is also music I'll make that will never-ever-ever
be for sale. This is my music alone, this is my true home;
from which all things are born and from which all my life will
spring untainted and unworried, fully of my own body.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Music is love in search of a word.

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, "Listen, mate, *life* has surface noise."

My ex-girlfriend had a really weird fetish. She used to like to dress up as herself and then act like a f*ckin' bitch all the time.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

Eli Roth [needs to be] sent away and told to make a low budget costume drama about people discovering love in the arctic.

If you pay money to see Pirates of the Caribbean […] it’s your own fault and you’re helping bring down the collapse of western civilization.

Many moviegoers and video viewers say they do not "like" black and white films. In my opinion, they are cutting themselves off from much of the mystery and beauty of the movies.

How do you make a good movie in this country without being jumped on?

There are several things that are wrong with Hostel. The first is that it exists at all.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.