I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

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

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

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

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

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.