I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

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.

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.

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

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

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

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!