I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.

I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.