I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

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.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.