I'm Afraid I Was Very Much The

Christmas To A Child Is The First Terrible Proof That To Travel Hopefully Is Better Than To Arrive.

History Is Not The Story Of Strangers, Aliens From Another Realm; It Is The Story Of Us Had We Been Born A Little Earlier. History Is Memory; We Have To Remember What It Is Like To Be A Roman, Or A Jacobite Or A Chartist Or Even - If We Dare, And We Should Dare - A Nazi. History Is Not Abstraction, It Is The Enemy Of Abstraction.

You Can Act In Five, Six, Or Seven Films In The Time It Takes To Direct One Film.

I Like To Wake Up Each Morning And Not Know What I Think, That I May Reinvent Myself In Some Way.

A Film Star Is A Kind Of Public Monument, And Everyone's Staring At Them, And They've Kind Of Got Railings Around Them, And They're Rather Miserable Most Of The Time.