But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.

Make a virtue of necessity.

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

I only just found you, I can't lose you now

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.