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

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

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.

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

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.