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.

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

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.

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

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