I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice but finally fundamentally it's mining from yourself, from your own personality, from what you know. If you can't know it you can have a good guess by people you know or books you've read.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.