Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

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

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.