is the fact that i can t really take credit for any of it. my life is a complete mystery to me. i don t even know why i act. so when any young actor says, how do you do it? , i say, i don t know. learn your lines, show up and don t bump into the furniture! but use compassion. compassion. thanks so much. what a treat. compassion, a quality that sir nicholas winton also had in abundance. well, you can see now from our conversation, there was nothing heroic about it. it sjust a question of organisational work.
i didn t realise how much this film meant to me until, you know, your question. and because it is part of my life, really. i mean, i was never involved in, you know. but i was around, i was a boy. i was growing up. it s good to see you. good to see you. we interviewed johnny flynn. he said you know, meeting you, for him, was clearly, really important. clearly sort of meeting one of his heroes as a young actor. did you have people like that when you were young that you met, that you looked up to in the way thatjohnny flynn looked up to you? oh, yes. peter o toole, i remember seeing him at the bristol old vic playing jimmy porter. ten years later, he was playing my father in lion in winter. and laurence olivier, i worked with him. my life has unfolded in a way which is beyond my i couldn t have organised anything like that. i couldn t have dreamed that up. but i ve been the most fortunate person in the world. the funny thing, now, at 86 years of age and facing, you know, the inevitab
it was goebbels who was to blame. hitler was to blame. himmler was to blame. but we were all responsible. we turned a blind eye. and it is an immense tragedy. life on any side of a conflict is a tragedy. one child s death is a tragedy on both sides. so, what are we to do? my only feeling is that nicholas winton was right. maybe they should put that as like a big brother peace sign. let us compromise. let s compromise. winton had no sentimentality about it. he didn t want to be regarded as a hero. he just hoped that we would learn from it. you don t think we have, is what i m gathering from that conversation? well, i do. i think we can have.
i say, i don t know. learn your lines, show up and don t bump into the furniture! but use compassion. compassion. thanks so much. what a treat. compassion, a quality that sir nicholas winton also had in abundance. well, you can see now from our conversation, there was nothing heroic about it. it sjust a question of organisational work.
bump into the furniture! but use compassion. compassion. thanks so much. what a treat. compassion, a quality that sir nicholas winton also had in abundance. well, you can see now from our conversation, there was nothing heroic about it. it sjust a question of organisational work.