"It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London"

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom"

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"

"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday"

"Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity"

"London is a modern Babylon"

"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way"

"The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime"

"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week"

"I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?"

"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays"