I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.
— Richard Attenborough
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.
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
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 I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.
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, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.
What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
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 majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.
I'm a passionate trade unionist.
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.
And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
I prefer fact to fiction.
