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

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

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.

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

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 just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

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