The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though.

We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!

We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.

The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.

'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.

To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.

I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I'm doing.

Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.

I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both.

Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out there and get a job.'

My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.

'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.

Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.

I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.

Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.

I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.

The thing with Joy Division's music is that each member was playing like a separate line. We hardly ever played together; we all played separately. But when you put it together, it was like the ingredients in a cake.

I've never been out of work in my whole life.

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!

When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.

I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of playing 'The Perfect Kiss' in my 50s. I can't quite get there.

When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're young and full of energy. In the middle stage, you indulge too much and are scared of daylight. Then, in the final stage, you've seen it all, so you tend to take things a lot easier.

I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs. It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blase about it. I can only apologize.

I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.

One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes.

When I'm not playing music, certainly the last thing I want to do is listen to music!

Accept what you did do, and live with it.

The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.

In the late '70s, the conditions that bands had to endure were, shall we say, not as civilized as they are today. People were a lot more aggressive back then. So there was definitely a lot of suffering for your art. But I would argue that was a good thing. Generally, people make better music when they suffer.

When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.

Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.

My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.

We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret!

There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.

My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.

I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right.

Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music.

When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare.

As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen.

I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.