And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.