Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'

No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple. And we'd better do something about it. For our sakes, too. That is, if we want to continue to call ourselves human.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.