“Bad things happen. Cope!” — Eileen Atkins Quote

Bad things happen. Cope!

My looks were good enough for what I needed in every possible way but not so much to be a burden.

Wheels come off? Get on with it. Cope. Survive.

One of the things I love about Helena Bonham Carter is that she is ravishing, but she does as much as she can to play it down and look funny. She doesn't let her looks get in the way. I hugely respect that.

Losing friends is the worst thing about getting older.

One of the bad things about being a filmmaker, about being me, is I can hardly read a book anymore because every time I read something, I have a poaching mentality, like, 'Oh, can this be a movie?'

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.

Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things.