Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.