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."

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

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

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

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.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.