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

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.

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

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.

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

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