I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.

You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.

When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was young, but that was 'cause I was a snob.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.