At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.

For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right.

It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

But it was I - yes I - who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics!