"While we travel as much as we do; this city is still really unique to us in terms of how eclectic it is. There's the variation of pockets when you're travelling around London that you don't necessarily find in the centre, but I'm talking about the city as a whole. For us, the inseparable links to the arts, being innovative and creative in an area like this is very transient as well."

“The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.”

Source : Paula Fox (2011). “News from the World: Stories and Essays”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

“My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.”

“If I can make the movies I want, people are going to watch it how they're going to watch it.”

Source : "Blair Witch director Adam Wingard on his most straightforward movie yet". Interview with Katie Rife, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2016.

“One thing I've become is introspective.”

“Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.”

“You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.”

“Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me.”

“And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?”