George Eliot

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.