At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

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

I prefer fact to fiction.

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 am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.