Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.

Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.

I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.

You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

Jack Cardiff - the greatest cameraman who ever worked in colour - was a lab boy to start with so he knew Technicolor from the inside out.

Love is scary. But not as scary as living without the one person who makes your life worth living.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

We've all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they're all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.

My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.