Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.

If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts.

How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it!

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

When you think an angry thought about someone, it's like hitting them.

When being unable to differentiate a good from a bad decision:it has become time to follow your heart.

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.