It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
What's scummy about the music industry is that everybody loves you when you're dead.
When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
I wanted 'Night of the Living Dead' to look naturalistic, but we weren't able to do it because we were shooting with a blimped 35mm camera, which is automatically static.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.
Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
'Leaving Las Vegas' is a relationship; 'Dead Man Walking' is a relationship, and they're very contained movies. They're compressed and not in wide open spaces all over the place.
If you don't optimize for the consumer on the Internet, you're dead.
The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.
I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
