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 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 came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

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.

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

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.