And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

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

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

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

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.

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 was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.