My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage. ' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.
I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.
I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.
I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.
Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.
Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.
To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.
The earlier you start, the easier it is to accumulate major wealth. Still, it's never really too late to begin.
When Allah decides a matter, it is done.
He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the creature but the creator of his own misery; and if a lover is unable to control his passion, he at least knows that he is himself to blame for his sufferings. But he who is loved without reciprocating that love is lost beyond redemption, for it is not in his power to set a limit to that other's passion, to keep it within bounds, and the strongest will is reduced to impotence in the face of another's desire.