Quotes

What I fell in love with as a child was ‘My Fair Lady,’ ‘Funny Face,’ ‘American in Paris,’ and ‘Singin’ in the Rain.’ Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don’t know about categorizing them in terms of class I’m a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we’re a partner with states that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does and that we’re practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they’re talking about.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I’m not going to get married, but it’s not my priority.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women – 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data – is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

And the funny thing is, I’ve always been an optimist – it’s practically a congenital disorder with me.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.