This is just the loveliest news. I'm so happy for everybody involved, and so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.

There are very few things that surprise me.

I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Through the simple act of planting a tree we can open their eyes to nature's beauty.

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.