Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

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

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.