[on Leslie Howard (I)]: He taught me everything I knew about filmmaking. I got on very well with him, and, luckily, he didn't want to go to bed with me, as he did with quite a few people he worked with.
[on Tawny Pipit (1944)] Rank [the distributor] didn't think they would be able to sell it to America so it was stashed away for a while. When it was shown, it was wildly popular, because it was everything the Americans thought of as being English.