"The Roman Empire, like any other empire, was made up purely of bureaucrats, the army, the priests and everything else…"

"I do recall one particular night shoot… We were called to the set at four o'clock in the afternoon. As usual, nothing…"

"He's a fine actor but a shallow person... Cheap is a better word... stingy! Stingier than anyone I have ever known. I…"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"[Responding to the perceived surrealism of Clangers] They're surreal but logical. I have a strong prejudice against f…"

"We would go to the BBC once a year, show them the films we'd made, and they would say, "Yes, lovely, now what are you…"

"That was all, but I was fizzing with excitement. It didn't matter what the picture was of. It didn't matter that Mast…"