My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

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.

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 love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

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.