I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

I loved having a crew. I loved being the person who woke at six in the morning and knew where to put the camera. I loved watching the actresses cry, and to know that if you were clever and didn't do too many rehearsals, that it just came that way.

I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.