The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith
My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry.
The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
I always wanted to design for films.
Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.
One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.
Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.
I get scripts all the time, but I read this [Baggage Claim] thoroughly, and I loved it. It was light hearted, cute, sweet, and funny. I told my agent that I liked the script, but I did let my acceptance of the role slide a little, until I was watching television one day; scrolling through the stations, and there was this play. And I don't like plays made for the screen. But, this one, "Suddenly Single", caught my attention.
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
. . . In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.