talking to Lord Willis and members of the National Film Theatre, at a John Player Lecture, about his 30 years as a screen writer and producer

"Basically I'm a writer, except that I did realise 20 years ago that if you loved films you had to direct them as well..."
"Somehow I seem to react to the challenge of the big film - the chance of the big loss..."
"I enjoy the luxury of being able to make my own mistakes..."
and introducing scenes from So This is New York (1947), Champion (1949), The Man (1950), The Guns of Navarone (1961), and The Victors (1963)