My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer.

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus groups.

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.