The old adage about acting - that it's 98% energy and 2% talent - is true, you know.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

I know I'm regarded as an establishment figure, but I was crucified by the establishment for 'Oh! What a Lovely War', 'Gandhi' and 'Cry Freedom.'

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.