Not Everyone Can Become A Great Artist;

We Were Doing It Under The Most Extraordinary Circumstances, But The First Out Of The Tent In The Morning Would Be David Lean. He Said To Me On The Very First Day Of Shooting, Pete, This Is The Beginning Of A Great Adventure.

I Tell My Children To Avoid Theatre And Go Into Cinema And Tv.

Most Difficult Thing In The World, To Write A Play. Do You Know The Story Of Shaw At The Fabian Society? H.g. Welles Said "i'm Terribly Sorry I've Missed The Last Five Meetings, I've Been Terribly Busy, I'm Engaged In Writing A Scientific Pamphlet On The Effects Of Radioactivity In 1984 And I've Produced A Novel, And Various Pieces Of Science Fiction To Do, And I've Had A Bit Of Personal Trouble, And I Had My Copy To Bring Out For The Newspaper." Shaw Leapt Up And Said, "i've Not Missed One Meeting, And I Have Written A Play!" Hardest Thing In The World. If It Were Easy They'd All Be At It.

I Can't Tell You About Acting. You Can Develop All The Skills, Voice, Gesture, Movement, You Can Develop By Exercise And Practice But Finally Fundamentally It's Mining From Yourself, From Your Own Personality, From What You Know. If You Can't Know It You Can Have A Good Guess By People You Know Or Books You've Read.

There May Be Honor Among Thieves, But There's None In Politicians.