I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.
I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.
I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.
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.