If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.