You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Silence is complicity. I believe that.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
I will not only not steal, but I will run after thieves.
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
For me, I will defend what's right - not who I am speaking with at the time or who I think will back me.
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'
There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films.
