I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

Pessimism is the key to see what really goes on within our world, the lies and manipulation that circles us all is exposed

Objectivity begins with the realization that one is subjective.

To understand an artist is to be a genius.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

I'll be dammed if I sit around another year, Dreamin' dreams hopin' somehow that they just appear.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.