In the first place, I'm pretty thorough about whom I choose. I instinctively look for the kind of actor who is going to be trusting. There are all kinds of insecure people out there called actors.

When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

Courage is a daring spirit.

Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.

The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.

I like people with weak will and bad taste.It feels like anything is possible.

My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.

I can't give up Golf, I've got too many sweaters.

Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.