I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

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

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.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.

My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.