. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.