I'm not a great cinema-goer.
Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.
I was an understudy in a show called 'One Over The Eight' with Kenneth Williams and Sheila Hancock.
All politicians will say they celebrate the NHS, but to a greater or lesser extent, they've all undermined it.
As a medium, film has great potential, but its use is dominated by big capital.
The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.
Because I've been around a long time I get a bit of leeway that other people don't.
The E.U. Is an economically right-wing organization that prioritizes the interests of big corporations.
I think cinema is taken a bit more seriously in France.
I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.
Cannes is the largest festival of world cinema.
I know there are people who can direct sitting down away from it all at a video monitor. But I can't do that.
I wasn't from a political family. Nobody talked politics.
It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.
When you're at the wrong end of your 70s, everything is a challenge.
Eric Cantona is a giggler.
It would be exciting to take part in what we now call the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, but with modern dentistry.
I try to avoid mirrors.
Anti-Semitism is a form of racism, and all forms of racism are horrible.
A film has got to demand to be made. Otherwise - if it's just, 'Shall we? Why not?' - you shouldn't make it.
There's no great desire to own lots of stuff - and I don't. You can only live in one house and drive one car.
I was stage-struck from an early age. I just loved the language. We lived quite near Stratford so I would cycle and watch the plays.
It's more interesting to see new people on the screen when you go to the cinema. I don't want to see the same old faces.
I think you find amongst ordinary people there are a lot of people that are really talented.
