Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.

An awful lot of filmmaking and playmaking is taken over by marketers and publicists, who set about to tell people what to think. And people feel safer that way. But it's not safe, and the whole wonderful thing that cinema and filmmakers can contribute is to go into the not-safe land of real life.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice my children's present for their future. It seemed an either/or. I didn't realise that by being with one's own children I would have had a better understanding of the ones who are not my own. I was thinking of them but I didn't spend the time that they needed from me. It's a tribute to them that they came out so well.

We will always want films ... that basically are centred on young people, because young people is the way we live on, we older people, insofar as we live on.