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

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.

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.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.

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

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.