I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

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 just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

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