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.

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.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

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.

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

I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.