Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.