Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.