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 don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

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

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

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

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.

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.