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

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 don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

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 believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

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

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.