It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.