How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?
There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.
In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give meaning to everything that precedes. In my own life, the consequences of the choices I've made aren't always very clear. The most beautiful things are sometimes not totally truthful, and the end will not give more meaning to everything that precedes.
An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.
When I fall in love, I don't know why I fall in love, I just know that I am in love.
If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying, "Okay, it has a lot of taste," and continuing to chew it.
When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex.
Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.
Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.
I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers.
We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.