We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

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

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

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

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.

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.