If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

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

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

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

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

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.

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.