"Get the right actor, and the job's halfway done. I've only miscast major people twice in my life – out of respect to …"

"Music is the fountainhead: everything comes from that. At the moment, I'm getting intoxicated on Beethoven, and I use…"

"When you get a cut and think, 'I'm going to make a halfway decent film."

"where George II died and where Queen Victoria was born is still used as apartments for the sovereign's relatives: Pri…"

"proposed as the chief gardener and William Brown as his assistant. Nelson had already 'sailed round the world in my s…"

"On 1 October 1918, when only sixteen, my father rode into Damascus with the , hours ahead of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence …"

"There is a that I will probably never send. I would not dare to. It is a cross of Jesus drawn in fresh blood from an …"

"... In 1961 she trained as a newspaper reporter and was sent to London to work for the Murdoch papers on . She filed …"

"As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they’re all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you shou…"

"It's not painless – there's a lot of struggle with all the identity stuff you go through. But we were saying you can …"