I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there’s that yellow thing, round, without any holes… Brrr! Have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.