When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable..

I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go..

I love that country [Israel]..

What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need….

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously..

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener..

What you want is a comfortable environment that you feel you can invent in. Because film is such a lumbering, technical, huge, great Neanderthal thin….

I'm a naturist at heart. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly young people, beautiful old people, whatever. It's so unsexual and so ….

Los Angeles is Hollywood and Hollywood is Hollywood Blvd. It's the first thing you want to see. It's the only thing really that you know about as far….

I have to say, without sounding like a total tosser, that everything I've learned in life, and that has taken me out of my natural interior life, has….

A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War. Film as propaganda is a very….

You know, he [Alan Rickman] played these very reserved, sometimes-cold, sometimes-threatening characters on the screen, but the reality of the man wa….

My parents believed in education and economic security, and I thank them for it. Because I think that's part of what's made my life stable. It was in….

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that….

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husban….

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones..

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it..

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident.".

I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all..

When you're 16, you think 28 is so old! And then you get to 28 and it's fabulous. You think, then, what about 42? Ugh! And then 42 is great. As you r….

I'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God..