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

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

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

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.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

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.

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.