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

It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

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 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 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.

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