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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.