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."

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

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 am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

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

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

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.