What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film. And all art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.