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

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

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

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

Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.

War makes early risers of us all.

I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.