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I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

I think Britain is a bit class-ridden. People tend to be judged by how rounded their vowels are.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.

Class still matters in Britain today.