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

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.

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.

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

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

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.

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.