A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

Men are pigs. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.

I diet between meals.

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN.

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

Life is lived in real places, and I shoot in real places.

Winner knows nothing about food.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

Writers live in the world to write the sacred words.

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

Creative artists have great passion.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

Things have done their part; it is for us to do ours.

Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.