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

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.

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 prefer fact to fiction.

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.

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

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

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