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

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 it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

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

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

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