A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.

Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.

We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.