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

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.

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

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

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

There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.