Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.