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

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

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.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

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

No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”