I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Never despair. [Nil desperandum. ]
I just want to protect them no matter how much pain befalls me.
I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature,["Planetarium"]. And it's still the only one.
The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.
I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.