As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.

We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty overwhelming.

Life turns to be colorless when people you trust the most ignore in times of sorrow.

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

I am not very good at reflecting. I am a complete perfectionist and always thinking to the next thing!

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.