He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

I met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family lived. It was very beautiful, but I wasn't used to being on an island and needed wide open spaces. Eventually we moved to Maine, New England.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.