I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.