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

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.

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 believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.