I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.

It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.

Governments can do both great and stupid things.

Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.

It is impossible for a star to shine and not get noticed, even in the dark.

The only thing that holds you back from your success is fear of the unknown

Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about.

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.