I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism generally.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school which is traditionally outside-in and the more American way of working from the inside out.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English Spanish Yiddish Swahili any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

Ultimately to have a career in movies to a certain extent certainly in England you can't sustain a career in just English movies.