I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.