People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

What keeps me going is my children.

Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.