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

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

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.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.