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

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

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."

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

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.

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.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.