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

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

On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.

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

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

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.