Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing adverts on TV for all this crap that's made by poor people in poor countries that we sell our children who have too much?

The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.