If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

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.

I choose many voices to consider and reckon with, rather than just one to tolerate.

love wounds me with soft pillows with tender lips and fingers

Vulnerability does not take away your strength

You want to come back to the bank vault?” Jack says.The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house.

Your discovery determines what you are known for

My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president

Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.

Lampard fired straight through the middle of a non-existent wall.