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

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

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

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

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

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

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

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 movie.

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

I prefer fact to fiction.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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