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

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

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 believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

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