The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.

Being English definitely gave me some insight into these eccentric Brits puttering around Hollywood.

I love the idea of creative collaboration. I love the idea of exploring marriages, particularly ones that are in process for a long time.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

Darkness approaches from outside.I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.

The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.

I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations.

We ain't speak, clicking heat is our Morse code.

No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.

The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.