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

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

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

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

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.

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