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.

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.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

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

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 was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.