Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.