We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.

Unanimity makes me itchy. It almost always hides a grave. I started digging.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.

My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age, it was the end of a golden age.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.