I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.

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

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

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 prefer fact to fiction.

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.