I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.