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

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

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.

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

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