I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

A courageous and determined person finds opportunity in every adversity.

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

This generation, and many others, have been led to believe that the devil is a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea of evil... But the devil exists and we must fight against him.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

You know who you are, but know not who you could be.