[Kenneth Lonergan won the $25,000 prize in the feature film category for] You Can Count on Me. ... Wit. |
Every name I think of gets pooh-poohed by my partner, the young Mr. Greg Wise, ... I've sort of given up thinking of names now. |
Having reached 40 this year, if they were going to find someone to play opposite me they'd have to exhume him. |
I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. |
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. |
I think it would be terrible if what children come away (with) from this movie was that you've always got to behave. No! Not so! |
I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way. |
I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, ... Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel. |
I would say to people, for heaven's sake, if you're going to have kids you've got to put the work and the time into it. |
I've been toying with names like Winston and Clementine, but I don't think they're going to wash, |
If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it. |
It took them longer to get me dolled up for Elinor in Sense And Sensibility because it took so long to do the hair. |
It was a hard time but you have to get on with things.You can't wander around miserable. |
It's lovely to be here, and at least it's, you know, no effort. |
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder. |