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.

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

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

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

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.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.