[From the section entitled "Winner Talking" in a personal booklet] Lun — Michael Winner

"He can be a generous host and a most entertaining companion but he can also be rude and a bully, as if it amuses him to confront the world in the guise of a self-made shit. Its hard to understand why this should be so. It cant be financial disappointment because God knows he has made enough money. Perhaps what gripes him is that he wanted to be a great director and never became one. Not enough for him, I suspect, that as a producer he has few peers among his contemporaries in the British film industry."

"A team effort is a lot of people, doing what I say."

"I think with less accomplished actors you often have to play tricks [...] You may actually want to upset them to make them look upset on the screen so they carry that forward."

"I think if I had my life again I would not be so utterly self-satisfied. (2004)"

"[On his mother, Helen] Nice, little, white-haired lady. She was a killer. If she decided she wasnt happy about something, she was acid."

"So when Im directing now, you see, Im thinking of myself, Im projecting myself in five weeks time, sitting in a little room with two assistants, saying, "I now need a piece of film when Mr. Caine does this, or Mr. Moore does that." And if I havent got it, I say, "Damn it, I should have gotten that." So all the time Im imagining myself in that little X-time hence which is why I can shoot a very complicated pattern without any pre-planning. Because Im two people. Im Arnold Crust, the editor, and Im Michael Winner, the director."