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 do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

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

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.

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

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

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