I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young
I lead with my heart all the time.
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film
Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave them to bleach out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,— But we forget not, never can forget.
Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me
Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role
While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it
What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.
The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
No one - absolutely no one - is above the law.