I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years..

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and ar….

I'm a passionate trade unionist..

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 ….

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone..

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

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up..

I want to be remembered as a storyteller..

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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