The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

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 tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

She's half mad and three parts drunk.

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.