Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.

With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.