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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.

Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

Quit your job. Buy a ticket. Get a tan. Fall in love. Never return.

My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.