The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.

Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.

One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.

All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.

Going out to look for a date, I don't have to do that. They come to me.

Once you learn to remain calm under the stressful circumstances of a fight, you will have no trouble remaining calm under the stressful circumstances of life.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Little hinges swing big doors.