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

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

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'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely.

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.

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.