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.

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

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

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

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

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

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