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.

Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

The future of American film lies on television.

In oratory the will must predominate.