“Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.”

“Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.”

“Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.”

“On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.”

“Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?”

“Fire is our first form of technology.”

“The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.”

“As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.”

“Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.”

“I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.”

“There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.”

“I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.”