I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated and I've never been really close to anyone.

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.