I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.

Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.