The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.
Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home, and, above all, of the quietness and purity of English domestic life.
I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.
The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.
Home will always be London. There's something unique about the British. It's about cheekiness.
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.