I prefer fact to fiction.

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

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

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

I prefer fact to fiction.

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