I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.