I'd like it to be remembered as you had some fun. We're only here [living] for some fun. I think if you learn something, all well and good, but we're only here to give you some fun. Along the way, you may find out something.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

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.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.

To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

Obsession is a young man’s game.