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

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

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.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

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."

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.