I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Britain has nurtured me and made me able to make movies that have travelled round the world.
I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
I am now a commander of the British Empire.
I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.
The British have given me good support for the last 8 years and have always believed in me.