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

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

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

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.

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

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 prefer fact to fiction.