Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

[Bong Joon-ho'] is quite different but technically, he is as clever as [Alfred] Hitchcock. That's saying something. In humanitarian terms, I think he is much cleverer. He is one of the best directors I've worked with. I absolutely adore working with him.

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

There are certain people that when they ask you to do a film, you just say, "Where and when?"