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

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

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.

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

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

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.