In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.

I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.

I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.