Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

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

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

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

. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.

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.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.