I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

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

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

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.

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