It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.