I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.
Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.
I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.
There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.
There's something inherently disappointing about success,’ from Topsy-Turvy, a Mike Leigh film about Gilbert and Sullivan.
