It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

I think one thing that always attracted me to movies was the personalities. I went to movies not because the stories necessarily appealed to me, but because of the people in them.

I can't imagine any one more delightful to sit and talk with about movies on a regular basis.

There are not that many people in the movies today that really make me go out and buy a movie ticket.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax.

The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.

I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie.

My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.

Water is so friendly when you have it on your palms, but so evil when they have you on theirs.

In childbirth grief begins.

I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.

I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment.

One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.

Jewish men don't know anything.

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.

Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.