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.

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.

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

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

I prefer fact to fiction.