"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."

"Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car."

"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."

"I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school."

"You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day."

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

"The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow."

"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts."