I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God...

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.