Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

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

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

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

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

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