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.

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

If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

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.

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

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.