n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.