I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.

Life itself is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

Diversify your investments.

Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.