I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject..

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majorit….

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics..

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example..

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 t….

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones bei….

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them..

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by..

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

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 bel….

I prefer fact to fiction..

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done..

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay..

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the mov….

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

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism..

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

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

On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig..

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose..

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not….