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 garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.

Money has no religion except itself.

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

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.