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.

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

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

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.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

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