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

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 prefer fact to fiction.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

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

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

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.