At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

Guy was a leading figure in cinema both in the U.K. and in the United States for over 40 years, ... I had the most profound respect for his remarkable talent.