Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.