I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.

You must swear never to go on the dole. Never be bored. Find something to do. And don't yawn.

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed.