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Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

I would love to produce a film.

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.