I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.

Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.

You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

Jack Cardiff - the greatest cameraman who ever worked in colour - was a lab boy to start with so he knew Technicolor from the inside out.

Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.

Life is a journey, so go on your way. Be a messenger of peace.

Hey, Cath. Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?

We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

I find male singers and what they sing about fascinating. It makes me realize how little we know about ourselves and how little I know about myself. It's interesting to see the male perspective.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

We have been subject to globalization and financialization and austerity and workers have been thrown under the bus while the one percent is rolling in dough.

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare.