I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.