"Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense."

"To do a 'Bond' picture is a blessing but also a curse."

"The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness."

"The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn't had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it."

"I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?"

"I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment."

"You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity."

"And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset."