In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.