When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more.

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 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.

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

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

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.