I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!

With [Fred] Zinnemann I did A Man For All Seasons. He was my screen godfather. I'm happy to say he was.

I often say, with something like 'The Elephant Man,' had it been an American series for television, where you have to sign your life away for seven years...well, maybe I would never have made 'Sailcloth.'

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.