I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.