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'm a passionate trade unionist.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

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

If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.