Jane Austen

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

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

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.