I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

A great ship asks deep water.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.

As more Americans meet Mitt Romney, I think they'll see beyond the handsome exterior and see not just a good salesman, but a thoughtful (and, yes, conservative) leader.

I would give female filmmakers the same advice I’d give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in yourself.

Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

We have the know-how in the world to house everyone. We have the resources in the world to house everyone. All that's missing is the WILL to do it.

Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.

I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can't.