We've got known in Britain for making the smaller films. Recently we've been pulling out of that into the more Trainspotting area, but the smaller films, they got the Room with a View with a Staircase and a Pond type movie.

So King Henry, who was played by Sean Connery for this picture, said: 'Then I will set up a new religion in this country. I shall set up the... Psychotic Basta…

Whereas if the film did any little bit of business in America, if the film did some decent bit of business, then Hollywood would take it, and they'd remake it …

'What have you been reading, The Gospel according to St. Bastard?!'

Menahem Golan, the Israeli king of the ninja flick, announced he was producing the remake.

You need one of those slave-driving old studio bosses if you ask me, not a sensitive graduate who went into movies because he liked the clouds in Antonioni and…

I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, 'No, you have to …