What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

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 was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

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

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.